Youtube is far too expensive for anyone to try and run a competitor to. I don’t think we’ll ever see a replacement.
Google is still losing money on it, and might never make it profitable. There’s a real risk that Youtube just dies on its own and nothing replaces it.
Reddit isnt dead yet, and it will be much harder for youtube to die. Kinda hard to make creators move when its their job, and without them moving, there is no chance of any progress occuring.
Right now, the best thing they can do is host their content on youtube AND other alternatives like Odyssey. This lets them make the same money they always had, but also gives people an option to watch it somewhere else. Unfortuately, your average youtuber is completely clueless about this option and so you mainly only see tech people doing it with only a few exceptions here and there.
I wish PeerTube (or other similar alternatives) would seriously take off. But the cost of operating such a service at a large scale, and the fact that most content creators don’t even try to find or to set up alternatives, makes it very hard for YouTube to fail. It’s pretty sad because many of these same content creators will frequently complain about censorship and demonetization, without actually doing anything about it…
@IsThisLemmyOpen Reddit is not dead, yet.
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Can anyone eli5 why pornhub doesn’t just use their long standing streaming infrastructure to create a sfw site like… Idk “VidHub”? I feel like they could be a genuine competition with very little adjustment.
or Vimeo setting up a more ‘community’-oriented form of itself, with free uploads etc. Or Flickr going in for long-form video. Could something like that rival YT?
It depends on how long people will desire long form video content. Maybe 15 years?
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