So Elon gutted Twitter, and people jumped ship to Mastodon. Now spez did… you know… and we’re on Lemmy and Kbin. Can we have a YouTube to PeerTube exodus next? With the whole ad-pocalypse over there, seems like Google is itching for it.

  • biscotty@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    It sounds like YouTube is heading towards conflict with it’s long-term content providers as well. Their new algorithm heavily favors “shorts”. This really screws over the traditional medium to long format creators who arguably made YouTube successful. Sounds like they want to move quickly into the TikTok space but it’s sad for a lot of creators who are losing significant income d/t this change.

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      1 year ago

      But, peertube won’t ever be a replacement. Most youtube creators do what they do for money. Peertube isn’t the platform for that, and I’m not convinced the storage and hosting requirements will really ever be a proper replacement for youtube. What youtube does is much more expensive than what reddit or twitter do.