• @lemonuri@lemmy.ml
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    4913 days ago

    Imagine if some big influencers like him switched to peertube, that would be quiet a thing indeed.

    • GreenBottles
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      1413 days ago

      It still baffles me why anyone likes him in the first place tbh

      • @grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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        713 days ago

        I can kinda see it, though he’s not my cup of tea. I like my videos a bit more essay-like and a bit more serious mode.

        • @dieTasse@feddit.org
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          313 days ago

          Same here. There were times where my eyes went up just hearing mentions of the guy, but nowadays, there are some videos I kinda enjoy watching (rare but yea)

    • @grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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      1113 days ago

      Even just mirroring.

      Is there a tool already that makes it easy to upload to both? Idk, I haven’t uploaded a video since like the 10s

    • Björn Tantau
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      613 days ago

      Wait for it, I bet a whole bunch of people mentioned it in the comments of this one. That will probably be the topic of his next video. Although I’m hoping for stopkillinggames.com.

    • I Cast Fist
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      413 days ago

      Any influencer that relies on YouTube ad money won’t make the full jump.

      Other than that, they’ll very quickly find out that keeping a video focused service running and serving 10k views daily (300k/mon) is very expensive both in storage and bandwidth.

      • Pup Biru
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        512 days ago

        actually for big youtubers, ad revenue from google isn’t all that huge afaik. i’m going only on the LMG breakdown they did, but they only get 26% of their revenue from adsense… that’s no tiny share of course, but i wouldn’t call it completely catastrophic to loose

        • @Cataphract@lemmy.ml
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          112 days ago

          you would have to factor in the amount of traffic that exposure from youtube gets them for those other monetary functions to get a real sense of how valuable it is to be or not be on that platform. Definitely feel like ethics should always come into play though and a lot of creators are branching out with hosting themselves or patreon/etc.

        • @AustralianSimon@lemmy.world
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          You can look any youtuber up on socialblade and see their earnings range. It’s not small which goes to show his diversified stuff must make a shitload.

      • Microw
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        312 days ago

        The big youtubers rely on sponsorship money way more than ad money. But sponsorship money is dependent on viewership numbers, so that is the main issue

    • @dieTasse@feddit.org
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      313 days ago

      I think they are the only people able to do something like that. Hosting videos is expensive as … you know. But if someone can do it, its them.

    • @fin@sh.itjust.works
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      113 days ago

      How about LBRY? Do you think it’s a sane alternative to YT? I also think peertube is the true freedom, though, I was surprised how quick videos load on odysee

      • @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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        413 days ago

        LBRY is cool but I’m honestly sketched out by the creators that currently exist there. It’s mostly weird libertarians and crypto bros plus random porn bots. Also between the first and most recent times I played with it they added a CDN that hosts all of the files and something like 99% of the data I downloaded while farting around on there came from that single official CDN, so very decentralized.

        Peertube has actual large creators who aren’t weird conservative podcasters, and tons of different servers already which serve content, and great Mastadon integration which puts it in a much better spot for growth moving forwards than LBRY. You can literally watch peertube videos from Mastadon (Which has millions of active users including some celebrities and government officials) and comment on them from Mastadon, so there’s kinda already a userbase measured in millions depending on how you classify cross-fediverse users

        • @fin@sh.itjust.works
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          313 days ago

          mostly weird libertarians and crypto bros plus random porn bots

          Maybe yeah. In fact, the only video I’ve ever watched on LBRY is from a YouTuber named Mental Outlaw

      • @dieTasse@feddit.org
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        313 days ago

        I though (not sure if I remember correctly) LBRY is basically dead after the lawsuits. The network was overtaken and is basically another corpo shait…