Message from @Beemann
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Finally, for all the comptetion driving the development of alt-tech platforms, that competiton just waters down the pool of those who would prioritize free speech which strengthens YT as the goto platform as those who remain, ,remain together
I've said forever I would pay $10 a month to access youtube. I mean, I already do, but they're still playing their censorship games. If the money came from users directly by subscriptions, you'd still have the fringes threatening boycott and the censorship would continue as it already does. The issue is not who's got the money, it's the people with the money having an absurd notion that the speech next to which they advertise has any relation to their product.
i would as well. but see, i can understand why they don't really have any choice and i think that is the oppurtunity
so YT takes all their uploads and throws them in one bucket. they then have another bucket with all the ad slots they earn money on. They can't catergoize the videos quick enough and can' t risk randomly associating say BMW with an ISIS video; so they have to yank anything even REMOTELY questionable
but a platform that integrated pateron support, offered embeded ads and tier subscribptions while leveraging off the users to both categorize and validate the those categories via blockchain?
they could offer businesses of all sizes a choice of what level of risk the company felt comfortable with using the categories
and users could choose to share demographic data anonoymously. 100x the advertising value.
An interesting take. I think it's still susceptible to the same anticompetitive tactics we see today, though. If YouTube would balls up to the bar and tell the advertisers that, no, the videos their on do not represent them and that they're not playing this one-step-behind game with the trolls, then the problem goes away.
*they're
that would bring down the social media giants cause it would be WAY more effective advetising to the group that would BUY say a BMW rather than paying for that ad to be randomly paired with say PewDiePie
I don't think they can do that. And frankly, the corporate marketing departs would just go elsewhere.
the trouble with marketing is that you can't really prove when it is wasted
so the corporations keep dumping money into marketing and just consider it a cost of doing business while most of the marketing is staffed by SJws
the entire business model isn't about competition; it's about drowning out the voice of the little guy, insuring you'll always attract enough NPC customers to stay afloat
afterall, branding is a hell of alot easier than staying on top of your competition
social media cuts through their smoke screen and that is a threat to both the corporate world and gov. they want social media muzzled. THey will let the big bois stay around but only as long as they agree to follow their rules. One side blames Russia: silence social media. The other side blames the Dems: Silence social media. And plebes on the Left and Right are too busy bickering at each other to notice.
Smoke and Mirrors. They both play for the same team.
mass social media platforms are tools for government and corporations. Smaller, decentralized platforms are what you would use if you wanted to really make a dent
which is what's being used in Hong Kong right now from what I can tell
Smaller, decentralized penises
@ManAnimal YouTube is definitely dying.
The old guard of YouTubers are leaving since YouTube is propping up the big corporate players. When all you see on recommendations are cable channels you know it's going to lead to an Exodus.
It's all the more reason why you don't want to be a YouTuber right now. It is hard enough to get recommended, go viral, and acrue a following several years ago, but now that the algorithm favors the big money players, your chances of making it on YouTube are nearly zero.
Yeah, but I don't think YouTube is ever going to die by any standard we can measure. Google is going to keep pouring money into it, no matter how much it costs, because they think it lets them control the mind of the populace.
Doesn't matter if it does. Myspace also exists still
the thing that youtube has, which no other place has, is a monstrous archive of videos
Yeah, just because a platform dies doesn't mean they go out of business, they just fall out of relevance.
So does newgrounds
no but videos are different
theyre entertaining
people actually like to watch old videos
especially if they havent watched them before
plus all the already big players will stay on youtube
itll just become an echo chamber for existing users
(at least on the political side)
(i thought you meant news media lmao woops)
It won't be easy, but already multiple high profile creators have been leaving YouTube. It won't happen overnight but eventually, unless YouTube stops pandering to corporate players will end up hemoraging users and other services will fill the void.
who though
alex jones was banned