Here I thought it was because of Squarespace...
Was expecting that as well haha
Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites
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#42Youtube is fantastic top of funnel. 2nd or 3rd biggest search engine online. Google also loves promoting it on search results. But YouTube isn’t where you should keep the rest of your business.
Honestly I find them sometimes not promoting it enough.
Granted, they probably shouldn't give it any favoritism... but often I'll google for a video clip and have to refine search to just show me youtube results as i don't want to deal with some beast of another site.
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#43Because they are finally learning that existing on someone else's platform sucks. Much better to get your own domain which is actually property registered to your name and can't be taken away from you because you offended some advertiser.
yeah, like so many ISVs build their software on top of Windows and slowly losing market share when Microsoft decided to get into their space like the Office suite.
i remember using Lotus 123 on my dad's laptop. Lotus was the king at the time and Microsoft kill them slowly. if i'm not mistaking Microsoft with hold Win32 api or something that make Microsoft's own Office software run faster.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
RSS stands for really simple syndication, so yes, sarcasm
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#45Because they are finally learning that existing on someone else's platform sucks. Much better to get your own domain which is actually property registered to your name and can't be taken away from you because you offended some advertiser.
> they are finally learning that existing on someone else's platform sucks
Suttons Law applies 'because that's where the money (ie audience) is'.
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#46Seeing how many channels are randomly getting nuked by false copyright strikes, shadowbans, account termations, it makes sense that they want to move off YouTube. However as a consumer, there's just so many services/websites competing for my limited attention that if they're completely off YouTube, I doubt I'd ever watch them again -- especially if there's a paywall -- I'd just watch someone else the YT algorithm recommends.
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#47You should always try to have your personal website, as it's almost the only internet asset that you can actually own.
Your comment for some reason reminds me of the early days of the Internet. Personal websites were a given there was a major urge to have your own website. Whether you had your own domain name or a Geocities type of page you just had to have one.
On dialup people tended to be more independent you jumped on the Internet then jumped off to preserve your precious 60 hours/month (and to allow your landline phone to get calls). That time offline was used learning about things and you couldn't Google every little thing.
I was much more into the fundamentals of the computer itself more than the stuff you could see on it. Making boot disks, adjusting settings in Windows, discovering Linux, learning HTML, sending lots of email, some IRC. The Internet grew in complexity and usefulness, and always on cable got cheaper but early on the computer itself was my main focus.
Now it seems as if a computer is simply a conduit to watch YouTube videos. It seems like people are realizing they need to be more independent.
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#48I 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.
Fun fact for those who watch videos by creators who haven't moved off of YouTube yet: YouTube channels expose RSS feeds of uploads and you can watch videos directly without ads via youtube-dl automatically using MPV[1].
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#49Earlier 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.
It didn't have such an issue.
8chan being dropped showed well how cancel culture works, and how in the court of public opinion one is found guilty not on evidence, but on sensationalist news articles that outright lie, sitting free from the pains of perjury and cross-examination.
I have not once in my life seen this child pornography or far-right content on 8chan that these news articles claimed infested it; one would have to be very lucky for the former to see it before a moderator removed it, and for the latter one would have to specifically browse niche boards that have very little activity compared to the big boards, which are simply about video games, lolcat image macros, and dating advice.
Have you ever seen child pornography on 8chan or 4chan? have you ever browsed them?
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even then, you're at Google's mercy, since they control search traffic. I run my own website, but 85% of my traffic comes from Google. It's pretty much like getting 85% of your income from a single client.
I feel there should be a legal principle that services as large as Google , that essentially have a monopoly in such a field could be legally ruled a service of public interest, and held to certain standards and essentially be told by governments how they be run. How to escape this fate? Do not become a big monopoly. We live in an age where various resources that are essentially indispensable public resources are pro…
I'm going to need you to think very carefully about how much you trust the government to protect the public interest when it comes to dictating how a media platform operates.
The government is unlikely to be able to dictate algorithm changes, but reacting to and forcing favorable behaviors to the current regime to be preserved is certainly within their power.