Post AUbR7TZ66AXALjVdwW by lemonheep@cawfee.club
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(DIR) Post #AUbR7TZ66AXALjVdwW by lemonheep@cawfee.club
2023-04-13T07:54:00.007070Z
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Know-it-all airheads indoctrinated to Dan Olson's stupid Vidme video will cry their pants about how Youtube's position means a competitor will never rise. First, looking at China with Weibo, Bilibili, and Tencent Video means that the YT monopoly really doesn't have to happen, and that consumers have the ability to get off their couch and take the work to simply use two platforms at once. Second, hate speech only thrives on alternatives because other types of people aren't using them (that's related to why Odysee is less political), and that I'm shocked with how Big-tech even became obsessive with what basically amounts to a minority of the userbase. Third, just think why Rumble and Odysee are here. Better yet, look at Peertube. Video streaming isn't that expensive, or even so expensive that only a megacorporation can do it (Fun fact: Youtube actually operated in the red because it was expanding massively (like, to the whole wide world). Rates smaller than that would guarantee profitability.) In fact, the only reason competitors aren't growing is just that you don't put the work to grow them. That's it.
(DIR) Post #AUbREJS06On50VRxkO by icedquinn@blob.cat
2023-04-13T07:55:12.310087Z
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@lemonheep the problem with youtube is everyone else has to pay their bills.
(DIR) Post #AUbRbyludZNrp534xE by icedquinn@blob.cat
2023-04-13T07:59:28.665197Z
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@lemonheep independent youtube offered very short clips (ten minutes) of standard or lesser resolution. anything more and you needed a paid director account.when google bought them they inherited whatever weird black magic Google has (probably some mixture of ad revenue and DOD contracts) where they don't actually have to worry about server bills anymore. so you now get every random-ass channel uploading 4K footage of dwarf fortress that all of five people will ever watch.it's not profitable for other people to do it. there's just too much data to traunch. with modern encoding its maybe profitable to do 420p, or 720p if the channel is popular, but definitely not deal with 4K ingress/transcoding/storage for small channels. since youtube doesn't have to pay its bills they can offer these things, which in turn keeps everyone on the plantation.if you see the alt services that do pay their bills, they tend to share similar limitations as OG youtube (though maybe slightly relaxed, but odysee requires you to pay to even have livestreaming access.)
(DIR) Post #AUbRhTRq0kwUPZHMVU by icedquinn@blob.cat
2023-04-13T08:00:29.975022Z
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@lemonheep Chinese businesses benefit from the golden shield project (the firewall) where the state is basically engaging in mass protectionism so nobody can use western services and thus you can't have a CIA-backed data plantation running the video sites.this is not true of, say, europe, where everyone can just go use youtube.
(DIR) Post #AUbS1L4iqoU8EdwIWO by lemonheep@cawfee.club
2023-04-13T08:04:06.228803Z
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I do get the fear of a competitor losing its morals as it gets larger, though. However, I will say that I'm not too nervous, since I don't see them even pursuing overtaking Youtube. More realistically, it will be like GOG with DRM-free gaming or Bandcamp with flexible pricing, where they're at least commonly seen as viable options. Plus, achieving the moral high ground is their literal business model, and betraying that will doom their entire platforms (just look at how much damage DuckDuckGo suffered just by adding Microshaft trackers).