Comment on Indigenous creators are clashing with YouTube’s and Instagram’s sensitive content bans.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks agoUnless 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.
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
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.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks 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.
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
Then do so. Come on. It’s 2024.
Until something is seriously done, being able to at least go elsewhere has to be and is the rational option that is left.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
There is no “elsewhere” that is remotely viable. That’s the entire point.
The only rational option is YouTube because there is no path to succeeding anywhere else.