• nifty
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    -818 days ago

    Hmm not being optimistic, just going based on past experience. Look at where you’re posting right now, did anyone think the fediverse could be a possibility when we have twitter, fb or reddit? There’s nothing out of the norm about what I am saying anyways, people do stuff like this for sport or based on ideology. That’s why anyone should support a foss project they use or admire, or pay artists, writers, niche magazines etc

    • @upandatom@lemmy.world
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      -718 days ago

      It’s just YouTube shills. Content creators who want to make money on the platform, and content viewers who don’t want to have to check multiple places for the things they watch.

      No one should feel bad for Google though, as they chose YouTube to be open to anyone uploading anything.

      • @Prandom_returns@lemm.ee
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        718 days ago

        Content creators who want to make money on the platform

        You mean “get paid for labour”? How fucking dare they ask money for their time and providing people with information / entertainment / whatever.

        • @upandatom@lemmy.world
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          017 days ago

          Yawn. This was not my point, or even what I was trying to to say.

          But I wonder how much you’ll defend YouTube and Google in 2 years.

              • @Prandom_returns@lemm.ee
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                518 days ago

                But youtube pays you even if the content isn’t worth getting paid for, so I don’t think your reasoning works.

                “Go somewhere where there’s no viewers and you don’t get paid”.

                Nice advice, I’ll pass.

                • @Emmie@lemm.ee
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                  Listen, I don’t think we would lose anything of value if YouTube suddenly stopped paying creators because of either end of the platform or change in business strategy.

                  People who made valuable videos would still make them and the rest was always just cheap lowest grade entertainment, fun but like no one will notice if it is gone and forget in 2 days it ever existed.

                  Even Netflix would not be a huge loss let alone YouTube clips. Truth is Netflix tv series are nowhere near artistic and cultural value of movies like Peter Jackson lotr etc… it’s just another form of cognitive McDonald.

                  If whole McDonald went bankrupt overnight we would be ‘oh well shame let’s go to McBurger’ and forget it ever existed in few days. If an extremely good and cozy local restaurant closed down we would mourn it for months. I even mourn loss of quality in such restaurants a year after opening which is unfortunately common… it’s so sad to order your favourite state of the art food and realize it is a far cry from the perfection of the original dish. It’s lost, forever possibly. It’s like suddenly someone erased Beethoven from existence.

                • @PeggyLouBaldwin@lemmy.world
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                  018 days ago

                  youtube pays you even if the content isn’t worth getting paid for

                  if alphabet’s shareholders heard this, they would take them to court. it can’t be true. and if they’re willing to pay, someone else will be, too.

                  • @Prandom_returns@lemm.ee
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                    218 days ago

                    and if they’re willing to pay, someone else will be, too.

                    You’re saying this as a matter of fact. But it’s not how it works in real life, otherwise people would have already migrated.