They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]

Post by freeAgent » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 11:42 AM UTC

vbsteven wrote: post #692

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I've seen another channel do this too, Corridor Digital. They're creating their own video platform, though it seems to be more so to get away from the traditional Hollywood model, but I guess that also has the benefit of not being beholden to the whims of YouTube. I wonder what the internet would look like if everyone did something like this rather than having all their content hosted on a central platform. What woul…

Won't this approach eventually lead to what happened with blogging? 10-15 years ago we all had our own wordpress/static/ghost blogs hosted on our own domains, and then Blogger, Medium and Substack entered the space with the added benefits of discoverability and a very significant chunk of the self-hosted blogs moved to those platforms. I feel that with YouTube we just skipped that initial self-hosted step and immedia…

Post by jjoonathan » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 12:01 PM UTC

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Off-topic, but this might be a good opportunity to address this: Do people find "?" as being aggressive? I think questions generally, tend to be aggressive (which is why deflecting back at your opponent is common in online arguments), and I'm having a hard time seeing how a question mark does more than just attempt to annoy the other person. I'm curious what others think, I may be too sensitive.

Hard to know. I read it as, "huh?" or "what?" or even maybe, "who are you kidding?" and for all of those determining offense level comes with context. In this context, the person replying clearly sees it as a bullet and puts some detail on why out there. Frankly, that kind of thing is as offensive as we all might think it is. Almost any offensive thing is. Context matters.

Post by thaumasiotes » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 12:27 PM UTC

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This strategy will fail pretty badly if you're on someone else's computer using Windows or DOS, where 'del' is the delete command.

Does `del -rf /` do a lot on Windows?

Post by simias » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 12:42 PM UTC

Rudism wrote: post #704

When creators opt for the easy-mode discoverability and pre-built audiences on YouTube, they're also opting for the severe limitations on their freedom to produce the content they want to that Google has every right to dictate. The solution here isn't to appeal to Google to change their ways, it's for more creators to pick competing platforms or go the self-hosted/decentralized route. I think it's still an option for…

Post by ddmm » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 12:50 PM UTC

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I think so too. If they were not a monopoly they'd have content creators fleeing the platform for how they handle these type of situations but for many youtube provides a decent source of income. Content creators respected their part of the bargain and worked hard to build their channels and Google benefitted quite well. But they're not only not equal, one zero power and the other one has all of it.

There have been attempts to fight the Youtube/Google platform, Patreon in a way is fighting against the Youtube ad revenue as a channels main source of income, so channels can survive on their own. Linus tech tips is creating their own video platform called Float-plane aiming to also do the same.