• @riodoro1@lemmy.world
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    124 months ago

    Google just made it really hard for creators to go anywhere else and created a monopoly of sorts.

    Literally every corporation does or attempts to do the same thing. What we would need is to revive the politicians that broke up rockefellers empire and tell them to do the same with apple, microsoft, google, meta, amazon and every tech „giant”.

    No more providing every imaginable service under one company.

    • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]
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      74 months ago

      Literally every corporation does or attempts to do the same thing.

      Exactly. Every single corporation is evil and should be dismantled 🔥🔥🔥. This is just one of a thousand reasons to do so.

    • @gndagreborn@lemmy.world
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      74 months ago

      I agree that YouTube is Google monopoly, but I I’ve been wondering… They handle massive amounts of data. Would any other non-trillion dollar company be even capable of storing, processing, and presenting videos on the same scale, with the same quality, and with what is arguably very good latency world wide?

      What could competitors do to beat Google without hemorrhaging their money just trying the manage the overhead?

      • @RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works
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        24 months ago

        If they use the same monetization no probably not, other platforms that do work like that (like Odysee) have some limits, for example Odysee doesn’t transcode the videos and has a limit of 16mbits and 15gb total. It may be possible for platforms like Vimeo or Nebula as they have a relatively high subscriber count compared to their size and accordingly more money available per person, or something like peertube (or general torrent based) could work if the workload is split between instances and users, but peertube has no monetization so it’s problematic to maintain

          • @lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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            04 months ago

            My opinion is content creators could host their own content and then links to these could be aggregated on sites like lemmy/reddit/twitter/etc for the purpose of discovery. This way one site doesn’t get to control the narrative by manipulating what videos people see and creators can monetize their content however they like.

            • TheRealKuni
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              24 months ago

              My opinion is content creators could host their own content and then links to these could be aggregated on sites like lemmy/reddit/twitter/etc for the purpose of discovery. This way one site doesn’t get to control the narrative by manipulating what videos people see and creators can monetize their content however they like.

              People are free to do this. It turns out hosting video content is expensive. Most YouTubers aren’t exactly rolling in cash. The ones everyone knows, sure, they’re making a living from it now. But that also wouldn’t have been possible for most of them starting out.

              Like it or not, YouTube provides something important to the internet: a place for content creators to get started with comparatively little upfront cost.