I’m scared

      • tiredofsametab@kbin.run
        29·
        11 months ago

        Creators won’t go there because (a) almost none even know about it (b) there’s no audience there for the ones that do and © there’s no monetization after the first two are met and some people do youtube for a job.

        Audiences won’t go there because (a) even fewer people who watch youtube would know what peertube is or that it exists and (b) creators are not natively there leading to a loop.

        Those things need to be fixed first.

        • dactylotheca@suppo.fiEnglish
          20·
          11 months ago

          there’s no monetization after the first two are met and some people do youtube for a job.

          The answer that people usually give to this is something like “monetization is evil”, because apparently content creators should all work for free

          • neidu2@feddit.nl
            6·
            11 months ago

            That’s why I support my favorite creators via patreon, and then I use a youtube downloader.

            • dactylotheca@suppo.fiEnglish
              10·
              11 months ago

              Good on you, but people are much less likely to donate like that when compared to the platform itself supporting monetization somehow

          • tiredofsametab@kbin.run
            5·
            11 months ago

            An egg came first, but it came from something genetically extremely close to a modern chicken (you can’t hatch a chicken from anything that is not a chicken egg and there’s no compelling evidence that one suddenly mutated itself in all the right ways to become a chicken before laying that egg).

            Anyway, on the actual topic, yeah, I think I agree with everything you’ve mentioned here. I think it would take YouTube doing something profoundly stupid to give enough of an opening that any alternative (which may not necessarily even wind up being PeerTube – people may end up going to even something like PornHub instead (and I think all the others like DailyMotion are (mostly?) dead now)) to get a chance. I don’t see companies like Nebula ever going the route of opening up like YouTube .

      • stevestevesteve@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 months ago

        It’s available but not flourishing last I checked. Just to be clear I’m not denigrating it at all, I desperatelywant it to flourish. I pay for nebula, too, as well as patreon for many of my preferred creators, in the hopes that they can explore alternatives to YouTube. Hell, I pay for floatplane and dropout too, as much as I hate the fractured environment it’s creating, I want the most direct way to support the content I watch, but YouTube is almost certainly still my most watched platform

    • Shard@lemmy.world
      4·
      11 months ago

      Things would have to get massively shitty for that to happen. The volume of content on YouTube will be extremely difficult to replicate.

      Just as a reference look at reddit. They’ve suffered a loss of users but they’re not going down anytime soon and while lemmy still isn’t going to take over anytime soon. There’s just too much inertia…

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
    22·
    11 months ago

    Just tested a few countries through vpns in private browsing, didn’t get blocked at all.

    Could just be that your ip has been temporarily blocked for being “suspicious”?

  • the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world
    9·
    11 months ago

    I bet it’s a browser thing. On FireFox I cannot load the YouTube homepage until i login, but on Chrome it’s perfectly fine.

  • Semjaza
    3·
    11 months ago

    Have you tried Invidious?

    Or poketube?