I prefer “list” view over grid view. Switching to grid view shows six videos before the break, but significantly less information about the video.

  • DrTautology@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    How is it that such a shitty site/corporation has continued to maintain a grip on this market? Why aren’t we inundated with viable alternatives?

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        That’s basically it. The only potential competitor is Twitch, but even then Amazon only really gets into free streaming content.

        Google has cheap hosting costs and the best ad market in the industry. The only non-porn competitors either charge the uploader to host or charge the user to watch.

        • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Yeah. Everyone thinks it’s easy to just “setup a YouTube”.

          I support nebula which is a subscription service with some good creators. And because “fuck shorts and clickbait titles/thumbnails”.

        • StarManta@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          Nebula is making good inroads. It’s well positioned to (eventually) make a shift from “YouTube parasite” to “YouTube alternative”.

            • StarManta@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              I’m not saying it being a YouTube parasite is a BAD thing. But as long as it’s primarily getting it’s views from people who started watching on YouTube first, “parasite” is an apt description.

    • skye@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      there’s peertube and odyssey but idk how viable either of them are long term. peertube at least is decentralized, not sure if odyssey is too or not

      i know Louis Rossmann also posts on Odyssey

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        Odyssey

        You mean “Odysee,” I guess?

        …Hey, browsing the “Home” and “Featured” categories, there are a couple of other Youtubers I recognize! Not many, but a few:

        • Veritasium
        • 3Blue1Brown
        • Undecided with Matt Ferrell
        • Bright Sun Films
          • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            I agree that becoming too associated with nazi trolls (which are uniquely a problem in a way that even other sorts of extremists are not, because of the paradox of tolerance) is a huge danger to nascent platforms. I’m not sure what to do about it either, except maybe to continue trying to promote the platforms even despite the risk of offending them in hopes that they can grow faster than they lose reputation. And in the case of Peertube, defederating from instances hosting hateful content, I guess.

            By the way, this…

            implying that all lgbtq+ people are p*dophiles, which is a completely fucked and cruel thing to say

            …is actually an understatement. What they’re actually doing is engaging in the equivalent of blood libel and trying to incite a pogrom.