Good news to everyone! We’ve wanted an alternative to YouTube for a long time. Now it looks like Google that next big step in forcing alternative platforms to rise in it’s place. I’m an avid user of YouTube, but not a snowball’s chance in hell will I buy Premium when they are trying to shove it down my throat like that. That’s a very good way to get people to NOT buy something but for some reason companies don’t seem to understand.
Gabe Newell said it best: “We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem.” - Piracy was down and streaming subscriptions were up when Netflix first came about due to the ease/convenience of it, but piracy is seeing a return due to the mishandling and misconception of companies about how to gain profit through improved services vs increased pricing/poor performance.
The reason I bring this up is because YouTube, like many companies, thinks they’re “solving” the issue of adblocking by force-feeding this kind of bullshit to the masses, but all they’re doing is forcing more people to turn to alternatives instead.
I wouldn’t be so sure about Netflix. They’re watching the wave of streaming competitors start to crumble, with HBO Max getting dismantled, and now Paramount+ looking like it’s ready to throw in the towel. They seem to be reacting to incoming lower consumer choice.
Looking forward to the day YouTube creators start moving to Odysee or Peertube or something similar
currently Odysee is a lot of right wing stuff (not my thing) and tinfoil hat level privacy tech stuff (def my thing, but I have other interests…)
and Peertube is… Peertube is just a UI mess so I can’t even summarize the content well. Especially because I am pathetically monolingual despite several semesters of foreign languages 💀
It’s unfortunate more people aren’t willing to give new websites the same chance we/they gave YouTube and the like back when they were new. Yeah they’re going to be bare bones/UI will be messy, but that stuff takes time to improve.
Good news to everyone! We’ve wanted an alternative to YouTube for a long time. Now it looks like Google that next big step in forcing alternative platforms to rise in it’s place. I’m an avid user of YouTube, but not a snowball’s chance in hell will I buy Premium when they are trying to shove it down my throat like that. That’s a very good way to get people to NOT buy something but for some reason companies don’t seem to understand.
Gabe Newell said it best: “We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem.” - Piracy was down and streaming subscriptions were up when Netflix first came about due to the ease/convenience of it, but piracy is seeing a return due to the mishandling and misconception of companies about how to gain profit through improved services vs increased pricing/poor performance.
The reason I bring this up is because YouTube, like many companies, thinks they’re “solving” the issue of adblocking by force-feeding this kind of bullshit to the masses, but all they’re doing is forcing more people to turn to alternatives instead.
I wouldn’t be so sure about Netflix. They’re watching the wave of streaming competitors start to crumble, with HBO Max getting dismantled, and now Paramount+ looking like it’s ready to throw in the towel. They seem to be reacting to incoming lower consumer choice.
The rest, though…
Looking forward to the day YouTube creators start moving to Odysee or Peertube or something similar
currently Odysee is a lot of right wing stuff (not my thing) and tinfoil hat level privacy tech stuff (def my thing, but I have other interests…)
and Peertube is… Peertube is just a UI mess so I can’t even summarize the content well. Especially because I am pathetically monolingual despite several semesters of foreign languages 💀
It’s unfortunate more people aren’t willing to give new websites the same chance we/they gave YouTube and the like back when they were new. Yeah they’re going to be bare bones/UI will be messy, but that stuff takes time to improve.