hzl comments on 'Unalive'

[–] hzl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be fair, when it comes to youtube the engagement on alternatives doesn't exactly seem very robust. Somebody linked a peertube the other day saying it was a great one with a lot of content, and the vast majority of videos I saw on the front page had 0 views, with a handful having views in the single digits. That's not really a viable alternative for a site with hundreds of millions of potential viewers.

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[–] Jajcus@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

The problem is: people want alternative, but they don't want to pay for it. See the hatred for paywalls and love for 'piracy' here, on Lemmy. People won't pay directly, so advertisements will stay.

I hate this model.

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[–] hzl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 1 year ago*

I mean, I pay for Nebula but honestly I don't even use it most of the time. The content is pretty limited, even if I do like a lot of it. I still end up on Youtube instead, just because that's where everyone posts.

There probably is some sort of middle-ground to be found. Maybe a niche website that takes certain kind of content and an audience specifically geared toward it, or one that's more community-oriented and takes steps to weed out the huge amount of AI content that's on Youtube at this point. I haven't really seen that actually work, yet, though. Maybe something like a Nebula or a Dropout but with better access for the average user who wants to post their own content would be a decent solution.

I haven't really seen Peertube do that, though.

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