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Twitter hosts their own servers rather than agreeing to another company's terms of service.
Twitter uses AWS. You are probably thinking of Facebook https://www.techradar.com/news/twitter-signs-up-aws-for-its-...
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Sebastian and Linus Media Group seem to be pretty frank and open about a lot of this: see for instance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzRGBAUz5mA&list=PL8mG-RkN2u... on putting up gurning thumbnails and navigating the YT algorithm (and that whole playlist, including a revenue breakdown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t73wXF8IF-8&list=PL8mG-RkN2u... ), the Gamers Nexus video on LTT's production process https://www.yo…
I wonder how many potential views he loses due to his gurning? I've never watched any of his videos despite YT constantly recommending them to me because I've got a personal rule about never clicking on a thumbnail that has a picture of someone pulling a face or which has a clickbait title.
Which is crap, but that's the world we live in. They do excellent content nevertheless. LTT and MKBHD are the only two tech review style Youtubers I bother following. They get to the point, know their shit and speak calmly.
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Linus Tech Tips is essentially the "Top Gear of Tech" - it's over the top, hammed up, but eminently watchable and there are plenty of nuggets of useful information.
It's more watchable than Top Gear for me. Maybe LTT employs better actors but in any case I believe in its candid elements more. On Top Gear it's completely obvious it's all scripted but we're expected to believe it's not. I find it very annoying and quite uncomfortable to watch.
[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging [2] S2E4, Unscripted: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6068870/
This article is a little on the surface level, but it's true. People were screaming about where platforms and digital sharecropping was headed all along... and we're here now. Youtube, which is basically digital free-to-air is even more centralised than old free to air. Youtube really is an extreme situation. They really dominate a whole medium single handedly and youtubers have shockingly little power in the whole t…
It's just incredibly hard to compete with Youtube. In a way that's Google's greatest achievement: they convinced everybody that they're entitled to host and stream 4K videos forever not only for free, but the creators get a share of the ad revenue despite fronting none of the hosting costs. It's an incredibly good deal. The amount of infrastructure and human resources required to merely keep a system like Youtube run…
Monetising. Youtube does it automatically, with a blog you need to manage the ads yourself and the audience is a lot smaller.
There is also a generational gap at some point. To me, it seems that 20-somethings turn to Youtube for every issue (phone setup, toilet clogged whatever) instead of looking for a text resource.
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> Floatplane as a platform for the most part doesn't dictate what that content is other than it being in the format of a video. Do they allow, say, porn, or white nationalist videos? I'm always curious exactly where platforms set the bounds.
This seems like a vague prohibition: > Do not post false or misleading information Depending on how this is interpreted/enforced, it could make the platform much more or much less attractive to politically-oriented creators.
The gray area for false/misleading information isn't as large as people would think.
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Oh I don't agree. I think there are downsides to putting a 'mod' tag beside usernames, quite strong downsides actually, in addition to the upside that you guys are correctly noting. It's a tradeoff. I'm glad that I listened to my intuition 7 years ago (ack) when I became responsible for HN, and chose to trust the way things had always functioned here. I don't see this as RTFM; there's no FM to begin with, other than…
> Oh I don't agree. I think there are downsides to putting a 'mod' tag beside usernames, quite strong downsides actually What are those 'downsides....quite strong downsides actually'?
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Twitter uses AWS. You are probably thinking of Facebook https://www.techradar.com/news/twitter-signs-up-aws-for-its-...
Twitter will use AWS, is what your article says?
Regardless, from the sound of it Twitter was working with Amazon on this integration. This means Amazon knew Twitter was at least planning on migrating. If Amazon was serious about being consistent they should have told Twitter right there and then that they would not be allowed on AWS since they violate AWS' terms of services in the same way Parler does.
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It's just incredibly hard to compete with Youtube. In a way that's Google's greatest achievement: they convinced everybody that they're entitled to host and stream 4K videos forever not only for free, but the creators get a share of the ad revenue despite fronting none of the hosting costs. It's an incredibly good deal. The amount of infrastructure and human resources required to merely keep a system like Youtube run…
Please everyone don’t forget google search positioning too. This is massive. Google have pushed YouTube into their search for a long time, basically building YouTube doing it. That brought insane traffic to YouTube videos and makes YouTube the place for videos. THIS is the antitrust of google, and where authorities should strike them. They built a video platform and destroyed others using their 90% market power in an…