so now what? Instead of millions of channels competing on one very good and easily accessible site, designed to show videos, they will compete on a much larger scale, with far bulkier channels on a site that displays other things as well. The punchline is that both sites are controlled by the same company. I can predict that exactly nothing will be gained by this, except the flooding of internet by many more videos.
Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites
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#22Because they are finally learning that all it takes to destroy their business is an algorithm glitch, or having 'wrong' political views, or just falling on the wrong side of an overzealous moderator.
When you use someone else's platform you are completely dependent on the owner of the platform, and being dependent on something you don't control is a huge business risk.
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#23I can’t help but wonder why services like Vimeo don’t come up more often when getting off of YouTube? It seems like Vimeo offers similar functionality already. Is there something about it that I’m missing / is it just not cool for content creators?
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#24You should always try to have your personal website, as it's almost the only internet asset that you can actually own.
This isn't just about a personal website though. This is Linus Tech Tips (with a staff of about 20 people) building his own platform for delivering content as the article points out. That's a considerable development effort and probably out of reach for youtube creators who are large enough to make a living and depend on youtube, but not large enough to justify that kind of investment.
Linus Media Group has 32 employees [1] with 7 massive YouTube channels.
As the article pointed out they also have other tech YouTubers releasing content of Floatplane, not just their own channels.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
More Cloudflare’s right? Because they can drop your DDOS protection or just block you from their DNS lookups, right? Like they did to 4chan/8chan.
If you own a site that has systemic issues with child pornography sharing and other illegal material, you probably deserve it.
4chan is a shady place, but it is definitely not a bastion of child porn. The owners do not allow anything like that.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not if you have a trademark.
Tell that to the people who have be completely de-platformed over the last few years. Everyone agrees that most, if not all, of them are horrible people, but it is totally possible to lose your domain name if no one will provide registrations and such services to you.
I can't remember any of them losing domain registration. They lost hosting providers and DNS hosting. Did I miss someone?
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you own a site that has systemic issues with child pornography sharing and other illegal material, you probably deserve it.
4chan is a shady place, but it is definitely not a bastion of child porn. The owners do not allow anything like that.
/b/ has been an epicentre for decades.
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#28You should always try to have your personal website, as it's almost the only internet asset that you can actually own.
This isn't just about a personal website though. This is Linus Tech Tips (with a staff of about 20 people) building his own platform for delivering content as the article points out. That's a considerable development effort and probably out of reach for youtube creators who are large enough to make a living and depend on youtube, but not large enough to justify that kind of investment.
Exactly. I doubt even the big ones like Pewdiepie can even retain a following with their own website, much less a s small independent creator.
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#29I can’t help but wonder why services like Vimeo don’t come up more often when getting off of YouTube? It seems like Vimeo offers similar functionality already. Is there something about it that I’m missing / is it just not cool for content creators?
What does Vimeo offer that YouTube doesn’t do better?
What reduction in risk does Vimeo offer that is any different than YouTube?
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#30I did not even know that Linus had his own site. Fantastic. I won’t be watching his videos on Youtube anymore! Hopefully, everyone I watch will have their own websites, so that I don’t have to visit Youtube.
If only there was some kind of really simple syndication so I didn’t have to visit 40 different sites to check if my favorite video creators have released anything new.
Is this sarcasm? RSS has been a thing for years.