• Lime Buzz (fae/she)@beehaw.org
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    3 months ago

    As with reddit / lemmy, I doubt a viable alternative will emerge until youtube has become well and truly offensive.

    Even after it has this is very unlikely because part of the appeal of youtube is getting paid for work and most people either don’t have the money to pay for it, choose not to or hate the platforms through which creators ask to get paid through.

    Like it or not, either it’ll be another tech company who will later do this exact same thing or we need more people willing to pay and less shitty platforms through which they can do so i.e. not VC backed/supported.

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      3 months ago

      Perhaps. I think consumers are more willing to pay producers than they have been in the past. I acknowledge that the time is not yet right, but with time, the less appealing youtube is the more likely alternatives will become.

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      3 months ago

      There aren’t many ways to organize raising the money required to build a better youtube or reddit. You could kickstart it, but you’d better hope whoever does the dev doesn’t sell. Another option would be a large open source ngo funding the development, but you’re still talking long timelines to completion.

      There definitely is room for a more pro-social social media platform that isn’t a clone of something else. Paying for it is another matter.

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        3 months ago

        That isn’t really what I was talking about, but I understand the confusion.

        I meant the people utilising the platform to upload videos etc to get paid.