I don't really see what they've done that Patreon/Vimeo do. Youtubers will still be reliant
Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites
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#52Because 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.
Its normal for podcasters (which youtubers are) to have a site that can host at least a show page if not a merch store
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#53Because 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.
Even if you keep up with what’s politically correct, your old content can become increasingly unfavorable. You can get railroaded for something you said 10 years ago that was seemingly alright at the time. I cringe at myself 10 years ago.
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#54I 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.
RSS feed for videos?
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#55Peertube would work nicely for high traffic videos, since the data transfer can be shared among viewers https://joinpeertube.org/
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#56Because 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.
Its normal for podcasters (which youtubers are) to have a site that can host at least a show page if not a merch store
The difference is that podcasters are typically hosting their own files anyway, handling their own advertising (possibly through networks), and the platforms are just discovery mechanisms. Whereas YouTube is taking care of the more expensive hosting, the advertising, and the discovery--for better or worse.
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#57Because 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.
What "wrong" political views are those?
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#58I 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?
DRM Free movie downloads, also it supports better quality video. Though those are things that work because they do not have the same kind of customers/creators as YouTube in general.
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#59Because 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.
>Because they are finally learning that existing on someone else's platform sucks. Much better to get your own domain [...] A lot of people already know they're the less powerful economic actor on Youtube platform. Regardless, people upload videos to Youtube instead of their own domain because of tradeoffs . For unknown creators with no audience, Youtube doesn't suck (in comparison to hosting videos on personal domai…
Besides FloatPlane, other streaming websites that educational channels upload content to are nebula [1] and I think curiosity stream [2].
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 woul…
8chan had the infamous /loli/ , it was dedicated entirely to child pornography. The only rule was it had to be 3D rendered or drawn/painted as opposed to photographic/video.