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Yeah, creators, just build, host, and maintain your own streaming video service.
To be fair, it already exists - PeerTube is a thing. The real reason people stay on YouTube is the network effect[1] - everyone else is there, so why would you leave? They're not coming with you, they're not giving you money on the new platform, they can just stay on YouTube and keep life simple by not worrying about a bunch of choices. Epic has spent billions losing money trying to compete with the network effect that Steam benefits off, so it's clear how much money and risk it takes... only for nothing to really change. It's not something that we can expect creators to drive without collective effort, and that kind of is happening with Nebula (which is part owned by the creators who join it) - we can only hope they keep that momentum going so they begin to form a real threat to YouTube's dominance.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
Making a video is easy. Making a good video is hard. Setting up a server and configuring Peertube is a level above that. Once you've done it you've successfully reduced your total addressable market from billions to maybe a few thousand.
I've read you can sync accounts and auto-publish your YT uploads to Peertube?
Sounds like the inital setup of choosing an instance and making an account is the most effort you're going to go through
I'm not denying there is no netwerk effect regarding steam, but shit - have you seen the Epic Games launcher? Functions are minimal and buggy and it's never a great experience. For example: the button to my friends list has not been working for the past year and it's still not fixed.
I know it's hard to compete against steam, but I really get the feeling they're not particularly trying very hard....
Yeah, the epic launcher is terribad in just about every respect. It's so offputting I barely play any of the games on there.
And PeerTube has effectively no competitive monetization model. If there was a hope of eventually making more money there, I'm sure people would start paying attention, but there isn't.
Overwhelming when people can get something for free or for cheap, they do.
You mean - just use IPFS? Or Tribler? And maybe there's been something else of the kind recently.
I guess Retroshare is not user-friendly enough.
There's also that LBRY thing with some web-hosted instances, an Electron native client and weird cryptocurrency usage attempts (in their case the goal seems honest ; it's just that I don't like things using blockchains - never understood how it would work for the use cases imagined, even in theory, people would tell me that I don't get it but they do, and somewhere around now it seems neither did they).
I mean, you are right, but there are attempts, sometimes close to success, of doing this with P2P (a video streaming service).
If you say then that monetization is an issue, then what I wrote about LBRY in parentheses is an attempt to do that exactly.
Blogs are still a thing and are very cheap to host. Not everything has to be in video form.
... YouTube does
People would rather watch a few minute video than read a 15 paragraph article that talks about the same thing.
Maybe so. But at the same time there are a lot of 10 mins videos with 1 paragraph worth of useful information in them... so I guess the argument cuts both ways.
Not always. In fact this is not often true at all for me. Both videos and essays can be too long and rambling. I would rather skim an essay than a video.
It's difficult to demonstrate some things in text, that's why I prefer videos.
Yes, I think that’s the implied point. Some things. Not everything.
Yeah. Reading is becoming a lost art. That's what's fueling general stupidity and short attention span
Funnily enough, I can't be bothered looking at a video becouse I can't glance through it. It takes too long listening to "please like and subscribe thnxxxxxx....." With text, I can quickly scan through, and easily find what I'm looking for.
I’m the exact same way man lifetime of adhd I’m not watching some video of a guy working on my model of car where 40% of the video is filler and visual glitz when I can gladly read forums and expert guidelines that are everywhere and I read fast. Skimming through video to learn without wanting to throw a brick at the creator is weirdly a pain for me often but there are random exceptions like the random dads posting youtube videos with not many views but they explain how to do the service menu and diagnostics on a specific model of may-tag or whirlpool or whatever washers they’re mvps. Especially when the actual brands making them work tirelessly to make that information hard to get and obnoxiously complicated if you even find documentation online. No I will not call a repairman to charge me fuck-you fees lol
Are you saying you read the 3 pages of rambling nonsense about how this cookie recipe reminds you of time spent at Grandma's Lake House as a child before actually getting to a shit recipe pulled directly from Betty Crocker, only it's missing key ingredients?
/S
I think the bigger problem is endless Facebook/YouTube short videos. We've gone into Fahrenheit 451 territory.