Comment on Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads

• Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I don’t understand how that’s much different than YouTube. If you pay for YouTube then you don’t get ads either.

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  • Melt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The difference is your favorite channel won’t be destroyed by a corporate abusing copyright strike, they won’t have to self-censor themselves from saying fuck or shit. A platform making money from ads means every content creator on that platform is a slave to the advertisers

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    • Jordan117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      they won’t have to self-censor themselves from saying fuck or shit

      …or “non-white people are degenerate inferiors”.

      Fuck Odysee.

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    • mindlight@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My favorite channel wouldn’t have millions of subscribers and a somewhat steady recurring income because of this.

      It’s a classic catch 22: Without viewers, no content creators. Without content creators, no viewers.

      I think it’s great that they try to get rid of what makes YouTube suck but I don’t see that content creators are leaving YouTube anywhere soon.

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      • DreitonLullaby@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        They don’t need to leave YouTube at all. That’s because Odysee provides a YouTube sync feature, that syncs every upload from YouTube with the Odysee channel. They can set the sync and never touch Odysee again if they want to. Plus, if we collectively ask our favourite YouTubers to join Odysee, and actually make them realise that Odysee exists, more of them will eventually join. Once more have joined, it will be easier to convince even more YouTubers to join again. The cycle continues, and Odysee grows.

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  • DreitonLullaby@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The point of the post is that Odysee no longer has ads. I’m not trying to say you needed the subscription to remove ads. That’s how it was previously, until today. Free users don’t see ads anymore.

    The difference between YouTube Premium and Odysee Premium is mainly in it’s reason for existing. YouTube Premium exists for the sole purpose of providing features that used to be free, with some extra things that most people don’t givea hoot about and never use; and, you know… to make themselves richer. It exists so that people buy it for the value it specifically brings them.

    So essentially; people buy YouTube premium for the features, while people buy Odysee Premium to support the growth of the platform, help fund the platform, and support free speech. The extra features they get are just a little bonus as thanks. Not only that, but the features Odysee provides are “Early-Access” features, which means that most, if not all of those features will become available for free users eventually. At that point, I’m not sure what Odysee Premium will provide if all the features become free; they’ll have to figure something else out to give it more incentive. But as it currently stands, Odysee Premium is more like a donation than a service; which gives you extra features as thanks.

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    • WldFyre@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You’re reading obnoxious levels of goodwill into the actions of a company that doesn’t deserve it. This is just the video platform equivalent of “critical support to Russia.”

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Profits for big tech is never enough, and they will raise prices and introduce more ads forever. This is because in modern economy, having a quarter where the profits don’t grow is punished severely on the stock market.

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