Comment on Indigenous creators are clashing with YouTube’s and Instagram’s sensitive content bans.

• lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s like [checks notes] 2 more video platforms on the internet!

  No reason these people can’t post on those, or host their own.

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  • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Unless they want it to be possible that people see their content.

    Let’s assume that if you share a YouTube video, you get a 1% click through to people watching the video. If you share the same video the same way, but hosted on your own platform, it will drop to .0001%. It’s not viable. People will watch YouTube. They won’t watch on random other platforms.

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    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Unless they want it to be possible that people see their content.

      That’s what the airwaves are for.

      But no, really, Youtube is neither that open nor that essential that the people not there are Somehow Invisible on the Internet. And even if that was somehow the case, you actually don’t need to upload video, you can just use a normal youtube account to comment and link your content wherever relevant “conversations” lead there.

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      • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, it absolutely is that dominant.

        And no, there’s no possibility whatsoever that linking to content in the comments will result in any traffic whatsoever, even if you didn’t get banned immediately. That’s not how people use the internet.

        Network effect is a massive problem and platforms who leverage network effect need to be held to different standards.

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• Arkouda@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Compelling argument.

  I will just go and do a quick search to find plenty of alternative hosting platforms and choose to use one of them to immediately distribute video content and nullify your only point.

  Youtube only maintains a monopoly if people choose to use the platform. Alternatives exist. Self hosting exists. Doing something more productive than posting “content” online exists. Lets not forget about the film industry.

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  • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Having a website people can theoretically watch your video on isn’t distribution.

    People watching your video is distribution.

    There’s nowhere but YouTube where you can host video and have actual meaningful viewership be a possibility. YouTube has an absolute, complete dominance of the video space.

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