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[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 45 points 2 years ago (8 children)

We need to slowdown YouTube and get an alternative that is viable for people and creators. The problem in this case is creators and brands, almost no creators would continue doing videos if there's no money at the end

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 22 points 2 years ago

The problem with money being involved is it's an invitation to spam crap everywhere.

One of my relatives has recently taken up "AI travel videos" and "AI cute videos" as a "hobby". No doubt based on the first thing that came up when I searched for those things, a video titled "make $10,000 a month spamming up YouTube with your AI slop".

Oh, and it needs you to buy the AI slop generating tools that they happen to sell. How convenient!

I mean, this also happened with broadcast TV, where we suddenly went from like 4 channels filled with programs and things competing for space, to 200 channels, where the rush was on to fill the gaps between the adverts as cheaply as possible with reality show tat. And that's all YouTube is now.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The other problem is storage and bandwidth.

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The solution is decentralization of the web

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So now the problem is sharing your IP with every member of the P2P swarm.

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Not really because sharing an IP is nothing that important

[–] Overshoot2648@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Not if it used Veiled

[–] Teils13@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There is the PeerTube network, which works like Lemmy.

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is one the best YouTube alternative but needs to be adopt massively

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 8 points 2 years ago

Start using it and ask content creators to also put their content on there.

[–] sentientity@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

It's subscription based, but Nebula is creator owned I believe. Sucks though that everything free gets acquired by some extractive company.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Something community owned and a non-profit would be good.

[–] gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago

They're already halfway there /s

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Right, but again the problem is creators

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

We probably need to have some kind of business that links up people looking for ads with in video monetization. Of course sponsor block Will negate that to some decent extent.

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Teils13@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 2 years ago

VK Video is indeed probably close to it, being a quasi state company. Theoretically they can not maximize profit extraction in all spaces, and keep the videos without unlimited propaganda. But Rutube is a profit-seeking company that is just smaller scale youtube. Let's see how the 1st will evolve over time.