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~~⚠️ De-clickbait-ify the youtube titles or your post will be removed!~~

~~Floatplane titles are perfectly fine.~~

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They have approximately now lost over 5000 subscribers which equates to about $25000 per month or $300000 per year in lost revenue.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I hate Floatplane being tied to LMG right now. The concept of floatplane is great and a competitor to YouTube is much needed

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been enjoying Nebula as a creator-owned YouTube alternative. I don't like all the creators there (a bit too "BreadTube" for my tastes), but there are plenty of creators that I do like. They have some decent bundles too.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Left leaning YouTubers, although, just like anything in the mouth of right wingers, it's losing its meaning because it's used for anyone they disagree with.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

"Left Leaning" as far as I can tell today is anyone that doesn't base a large chunk of their personality on hating or being against vulnerable groups of people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Okay, I understand what you’re referring to now, but… why “bread?”

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

The term BreadTube comes from Peter Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread, a book explaining how to achieve anarcho-communism and how an anarcho-communist society would function.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BreadTube

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's so sad how conservatives say the exact same thing, verbatim, about the left. The cults are eternally talking past each other.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea YouTube desperately needs some legitimate competition

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not likely to ever happen. The business model just isn't sustainable by itself. The costs are through the roof, and ads don't pay enough to pay for it and pay creators. Any competitor would be far more restricted on who and what can be uploaded.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Definitely, I don't see another platform popping up where anyone can upload basically unlimited amounts of anything. It's kinda insane that Google even allows that still haha

But Floatplane is at least a high-quality platform that sufficiently supports creators without ads (subscription instead)