I mean let's be realistic here, there's literally no alternative to Youtube. The content that's on Youtube is overwhemingly exclusive to Youtube, unless the creator just so happens to upload on some other platform (which??). But they're most likely in the extreme minority, so unless you do give up Youtube entirely, they'll not be getting "nothing" from you, they'll be getting all the ad revenue from the ads you get without Premium, vs. the £3/month or whatever it was you were paying.
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I mean let's be realistic here, there's literally no alternative to Youtube. The content that's on Youtube is overwhemingly exclusive to Youtube, unless the creator just so happens to upload on some other platform (which??). But they're most likely in the extreme minority, so unless you do give up Youtube entirely, they'll not be getting "nothing" from you, they'll be getting all the ad revenue from the ads you get without Premium, vs. the £3/month or whatever it was you were paying.
Soldato
YouTube is clearly acting as a gatekeeper to this content and needs to be regulated.
Caporegime
Nice idea but that would be like asking Disney + to make Marvel free to view.
Is there anything stopping creators from uploading to the other sites?
Soldato
No? Not sure why that’s relevant though.
I think mostly the prospect of being to turn it into a legitimate career, or at least a major source of income for the creators. I don't know of other video host platfom that offers that potential. I mean, even the closest rival I can think of in Vimeo had to pivot, and aren't they exclusive to proper film productions or something now? The only others with "unlimited" public video hosting are random ones like DailyMotion, and how many people have even heard of that these days?
Caporegime
I got turfed out of my Mumbai public toilet along time ago .
Soldato
Touch wood my Ukrainian family and 3 channel memberships stay strong.
Otherwise I am prepared to move somewhere else and start vpning more
Otherwise I am prepared to move somewhere else and start vpning more
Then how is YouTube gatekeeping, if there's freedom for creators to go elsewhere. I understand they have a monopoly, but I'm not sure there's much that can be done about that without someone stepping up to compete?
Soldato
I can’t go somewhere else and watch the same content that’s on YouTube. YouTube are gatekeeping consumers.
But that’s then up to the content creators no? Certainly nothing stopping them uploading content elsewhere.
They're not gatekeeping anything?! It's their services and servers we are accessing.
Soldato
My question would be why they don’t upload to those alternative places.
Not a big enough audience on the alternative platforms.
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Soldato
And why is that?
Not hard to figure out why lol