• @laylawashere44@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      101 year ago

      Go where? The only companies that can afford to do unlimited video forever for everyone are the likes of Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. Meta tried to steal VOD watchers from YouTube years ago, they failed. Amazon tried to get into VOD via Twitch, they gave up. Microsoft tried to come after Twitch with Mixer, they failed. Moreover, a lot of the things we hate about youtube like poor content moderation, the copyright system, demonetization, etc arent youtubes fault. The broken copyright system is just a result of what copyright law is, it’d probably be worse on a different site since they wouldn’t have the special agreement YouTube has with major copyright holders to serve as an intermediary. Instead of content strikes, or an ad revenue claim, that youtube has the special power to do, you’d just default to DMCA takedowns for everything immediately. And yeah content moderation and demonetization is bad but Youtube never wanted to do this right? They were happily showing ads on ISIS videos, its advertisers that forced them, which is how we ended up with a system that randomly pulls ads from videos if there is a hint of something an ad agency would object too. I mean it’s either this or advertisers don’t advertise at all, which fucks everyone, instead of a few people.

      • @manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com
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        141 year ago

        If you love watching ads so much go watch them. That’s the same boomer mentality that keeps cable alive to this day. I don’t care, I will never watch ads

        • @papertowels
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          31 year ago

          So uhhh where will content creators go, you still haven’t answered the question.

            • @papertowels
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              11 year ago

              You said creators will go elsewhere, which implies you know there are alternatives. Just wondering if you had anything in mind, or if you just kinda kicked that can down the road.

      • mesamune
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        1 year ago

        We got videos before YouTube, it’s fine. There are plenty competitors out there.

        Peertube, twitch, hell archive.org has a video platform. And there are systems like Odyssey that already pay their creators.

    • Polar
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      31 year ago

      And are you going to pay to host the petabytes of 4K content? Or are you going to expect other people to pay that when these creators jump ship?

      • @Gabu@lemmy.world
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        81 year ago

        What kind of moron is distributing 4k content when 1080p with high bitrate is already overkill?

        • Polar
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          31 year ago

          What 💀 1080p looks like garbage on a 4K TV.

      • @shortwavesurfer@monero.town
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        11 year ago

        Maybe it’s because I am blind and so my point is a little bit different. But personally, I have never understood having much video over about 1080p, especially on a phone and possibly even 720p. Peertube and 720p would work great. Each creator could set up their own instance or pay someone to set it up for them, and if they ever blew up and got seriously big, the amount of people watching their videos would send to their peers and load balance across them so the server wasn’t totally overwhelmed.