Comment on YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet
qarbone@lemmy.world 7 months agoThe problem with any competitor is providing enough value to content producers to get them to make the move.
Comment on YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet
qarbone@lemmy.world 7 months agoThe problem with any competitor is providing enough value to content producers to get them to make the move.
TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Eh, kinda. Tbh youtube didn’t use to be that way, it was just a place to upload your videos and search for other videos. Over time they grew it into a creator focused site much to the detriment of the quality of content imo. Like sure, creators are producing 4k videos with great lighting and yada yada yada, but they have to create so much content constantly that the videos favored by youtube’s algorithm are fairly soulless, low effort mass produced crap that looks shinier. Classic youtube was some dude with a heavy accent recording on a nokia potato a 25 second video that immediately showed you how to do exactly what you entered into the search bar.
qarbone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It was like that in an age that no longer exists, and can no longer exist. Things were generally decentralised as everyone was doing and hosting their own shit. And people were fine and accustomed to finding weird holes with a collection of strange content. The average user is now focused on convenience rather than exploring, especially as web content has come to supplant other forms of entertainment.
DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Yeah everyone talking about how many additional TB of data you need to host every hour - if content had to justify it’s existence on it’s own merits a lot less of it would exist and it’s quality would be dramatically superior.
Jako301@feddit.de 7 months ago
Pretty much all creators on Youtube start with shitty videos you wouldn’t even glance at a second time. If you pre filter all videos then said creators could never get feedback or encouragement and most would’ve stopped long ago.