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Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites

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Re: Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites

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You should always try to have your personal website, as it's almost the only internet asset that you can actually own.

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.

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.

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post #4

You should always try to have your personal website, as it's almost the only internet asset that you can actually own.

You don't own its domain, however. It can be revoked at any time.

Technically you do own the domain, although the registry and most registrars retain the right to revoke it based on their abuse policies; There are enterprise-grade registrars that have contracts without these provisions (like CSC Global[0], which Disney uses[1]) if you'd like to remove this risk.

0: http://corporatedomains.com

1: https://who.is/whois/disney.com

Re: Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites

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I think that's a great decision. Many people like to complain about Youtube and its policies and its algorithms but it's simply very hard to compete with it. Its offering is really unparalleled.

Hopefully these creators will manage to carve enough of a niche to create healthy competition, especially with a business model that doesn't rely entirely on ad revenue. It's going to be very hard though, making money from video hosting is a very difficult thing to do.

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't own its domain, however. It can be revoked at any time.

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.

Re: Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites

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I 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.

Re: Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites

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I 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.

You comment made me realize that if it becomes reality RSS might finally make a much needed comeback. You'll just poll various decentralized website to find updates for content you actually want. Aaaah, now you got my hopes up.

If you had told me in 2005 that'd I'd become nostalgic for Flash-ridden, PHP backed, IE6-compatibilized internet I wouldn't have believed you, and yet here we are.

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post #9

Earlier 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.

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.

Re: Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites

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post #4

You should always try to have your personal website, as it's almost the only internet asset that you can actually own.

You don't own its domain, however. It can be revoked at any time.

It's impossible to be completely impervious to all threats, but for your domain name there are some options that may help. For instance there are domains sold outside the reach of specific jurisdictions[1] and there are blockchain dns efforts as well[2].

[1] https://bulletproofhosting.org/bulletproof-domains/

[2] https://blockchain-dns.info/

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