Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 8 months ago[…] you aren’t willing to pay a subscription, then why do you think you’re entitled to content?
You CANNOT pay for your content there, even if you want to.
Has it never occurred to you that YouTube gets all their content FOR FREE?
You can only pay to make Google even richer. That’s all your money can do there. Nothing else.
fugacity@kbin.social 8 months ago
Perhaps YouTube gets all their content for free, but it certainly isn't free to transcode video, host it reliably, and distribute it while moderating it (given how bad Twitter is right now I'm sure they have a decent number of measures in place, even if they aren't even "good" at it). And if it was remotely easy, believe me, there would be a lot of competition in this space.
Yes, I make Alphabet x dollars richer (or really, I make YouTube operate at a slightly lesser cost) every month by paying a subscription. And actually, I'm okay with it. A tiny cut of it goes to content creators and I get a nice piece of tech. And I support the branch of Alphabet that has technology that I think is incredibly useful and beneficial. If there's a content creator that I like especially then I'll support them directly.
The reality of it is that things cannot be free. Or at least it seems that way, because we have not been able to provide a free video hosting service that doesn't take advantage of its content creators or consumers.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 8 months ago
No. That was my point. Don’t you know their business model? The creators get a tiny share of the paid ads on their video, and they get nothing at all if there are no ads playing on their video. They can never get a share from your payment.
ComradeKeen@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Where are you getting the information that YT doesn’t pay out creators for Premium views?
Google claims they do. support.google.com/youtube/answer/7060016?hl=en#:….
A search over Reddit would indicate creators actually make more money from premium views than regular ones, but that’s hearsay.