Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish
bric@lemm.ee 8 months agoYoutube 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
davetapley@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
chuckd@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Coincidentally, the price of advertisements
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…
chuckd@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They do this already. It’s called YouTube Premium and they’ve determined it’s worth more than $5 a month. My guess is the amount they decide to charge is not an arbitrary number, but one that covers their expenses based on expected engagement.
Unpopular opinion: If people either paid monthly, or they didn’t run pihole, blockers, or vanced, the monthly price of YT Premium would probably be closer to your magical $5 cost. Although, honestly, I doubt you’d pay the $5 either.
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.
chuckd@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Those are exactly the number of ways.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Donations are not ads.
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
davetapley@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well yes, this is the problem isn’t it: