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this seems to be the theme of the season mateys
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
wow just wow while i can't say i didn't see this one coming but it always amazes me where greed could lead someone
The day they no longer work is the day a new open source project is born
Check out Odysee. Open source, decentralized, great interface. It' s a great youtube alternative but is unfortunately still a little lacking in content.
Hopefully youtube continuing to pull shit like this will drive users there, much like reddit has driven users here.
IT's also lacking viewers. Odyssee is a great idea, but I converted all my videos over and get 0 views. Odysee's biggest problem is they need to advertise for viewers, but anyone who goes "Watch me on Odysee" sounds like an idiot, or a scammer (I know Upper Echelon pushed it for a while, but he pushed all sorts of stillborn projects, so it just was yet another one..
It basising a lot of it's reward structure on a crypto currency doesn't help much either.
@code_is_speech
Odysee kinda sucks ngl. All my fav creators left because of the community there being so toxic.
I haven't really noticed that tbh, though I definitely believe it. A sizeable portion of people who populate 'alternative' platforms, are the people who get kicked off of, or censored on, mainstream platforms.
Unfortunately, that often means that those platforms struggle to attract regular users and content, since regular users are scared away by the existing users bad behavior..
The only way I can see those platforms really getting over that hump, is when the major platforms make stupid, overreaching, and greedy decisions. Pushing their regular users away, and onto those alternative platforms.
I don't know what it will take to get 'regular' users migrating off of youtube. But I can tell you right now that I will NOT accept watching ads, nor will I ever pay a cent to google.
The day that I am unable to block ads on youtube will be the last day that I use it.