Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish

• bric@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Youtube ads don’t just pay creators though, they also pay for video hosting, discovery, and streaming, which aren’t cheap. A lemmy for video streaming would be great, but there’s a reason it hasn’t really happened yet, you’d need a much larger portion of viewers to pay than what it takes lemmy to run, and you’d need a bigger community of developers to build it, which is why most youtube alternatives are strictly paid products. None of that is criticism of the idea, I think it would be great if we could wrench away some of youtube’s monopoly, but at the same time we need to understand why it’s a challenging concept

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  • davetapley@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A lemmy for video streaming

    Ask and you shall receive: joinpeertube.org

    There are even companies springing up who will run and host it for you, for a price, of course.

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    • chuckd@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      for a price

      Coincidentally, the price of advertisements

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      • madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Is it though? How much revenue does Google get from bombarding me with ads? I despise ads, block them whenever I can and will actively avoid products that interrupt my shows.

        Instead they could get 5$ a month from me for no ads.

        Yet here we are, they sending ads my way and me fighting them off with every tool possible.

        With all the tracking they do, you’d think they’d be able to identify power users like me, I run piholes, blockers, vanced etc, yet they still don’t seem to understand I’m not the target audience they are looking for…

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      • davetapley@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well, not necessarily, right? It could be funded any number of ways, but on YT you’re locked in to either watching their ads, or paying their premium.

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      • mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Donations are not ads.

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    • thorbot@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Checked that out, typed in Board Game Reviews, only videos are clickbait videos by sleazebag Jon Del Arroz, Noped out so fast

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      • davetapley@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well yes, this is the problem isn’t it:

        1. Monopoly X sucks
        2. Federated alternatives developed
        3. People complain that there’s not enough content

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• sweeny@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Those YouTubers have the option to disable ads on their channel if that is truly all the revenue they need, you don’t need to make that decision for them

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  • mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought you cant disable ads now?

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    • OrderedChaos@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t have much but my few videos I have no longer have the option to disable ads.

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    • sweeny@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think they still can but they have less fine control over which ad placements they disable? I’m not totally sure, but that’s what this link seems to imply support.google.com/youtube/answer/6332943?hl=en

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