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How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media

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Re: How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media

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I know at times I may sound like a shill for Patreon, but I have no connection to them whatsoever beyond "normal customer", and don't care if you use a competitive service to them or whatever. But if you are in the position of finding yourself with a growing show like this, I implore you to set up some sort of voluntary subscription revenue as soon as possible, before you embed into the very foundation of your conten…

If you like a persons content enough to pay them for it, then it might make sense to view the videos some way that isn't youtube. Perhaps, Pateron should team up with someone and offer the video hosting perhaps. I'd like to see competition for youtube. They'd fuck up less if there were a more compelling reason for them to stop fucking up.

I'd love to see IPFS video (https://ipfstube.erindachtler.me/ ) get used for this sort of thing. For static, high-bandwidth content like video, that is created by users and for public domain, it makes more sense to be than a fat centralised pipe that's extremely expensive to maintain.

Re: How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I don't want to commit to a monthly." Another part of the reason I tend to support the model is that I've watched micropayments for.... umm... gosh, about 16-18 years now. It isn't going to happen, or if it is, it's going to require something relatively fundamental to shift. I expanded more on that 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14117016 (Also why I decided I need to disclaim being a shill, since t…

Twitch is doing micropayments now https://blog.twitch.tv/introducing-cheering-celebrate-togeth... , they call them bits, 1 bit is ~$0.015 First micropayment service that actually is _micro_.

Not really first. I run Tapview, we do micropayments that you can put on your own site, and we go down to 1 cent. Also, I'd say we are definitely not the first.
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