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Topic: YouTube alternatives?

Apparently, YouTube are planning to force adverts onto the videos of small-time creators without paying them anything: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55016142 (I'm not sure if this page is viewable in all countries, apologies if not). If they go ahead with their plans it seems as though they'll be shooting themselves in the foot, as anybody who cares about their content will start to seek out alternatives. Speaking of which: so far I've found a couple of possibilities, Vimeo and Dailymotion. Does anybody have experience of either of these, from a content creator's point of view?

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Youtube demand 1000 subscribers to allow videos get paid.
Sounds unfair, but it's probably one way to estimulate people to ask for subscriptions.

Your post makes me remamber when I was child and early teen, and only wanted sucks (cotton) without any name of manufacturer on it, cause I dislike advertisiments. Even today I prefer to buy cotton sucks without any visible brand name on it. :-)

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Beto-Music wrote:

Youtube demand 1000 subscribers to allow videos get paid.
Sounds unfair, but it's probably one way to estimulate people to ask for subscriptions.

Your post makes me remamber when I was child and early teen, and only wanted sucks (cotton) without any name of manufacturer on it, cause I dislike advertisiments. Even today I prefer to buy cotton sucks without any visible brand name on it. :-)

Socks maybe

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dazric wrote:

Apparently, YouTube are planning to force adverts onto the videos of small-time creators without paying them anything: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55016142 (I'm not sure if this page is viewable in all countries, apologies if not). If they go ahead with their plans it seems as though they'll be shooting themselves in the foot, as anybody who cares about their content will start to seek out alternatives. Speaking of which: so far I've found a couple of possibilities, Vimeo and Dailymotion. Does anybody have experience of either of these, from a content creator's point of view?

I'm not a creator, but many performers seem to like Twitch although its a live stream and may not be what you are seeking it may be worth checking out.

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dazric wrote:

Apparently, YouTube are planning to force adverts onto the videos of small-time creators without paying them anything: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55016142 (I'm not sure if this page is viewable in all countries, apologies if not). If they go ahead with their plans it seems as though they'll be shooting themselves in the foot, as anybody who cares about their content will start to seek out alternatives. Speaking of which: so far I've found a couple of possibilities, Vimeo and Dailymotion. Does anybody have experience of either of these, from a content creator's point of view?

It's worse than that. Check their copyright policies (you don't own what you post) and their enforcement ones (if their anti-piracy automated software decides that your out-of-copyright Bach playing is instead owned by a big label... you're out of luck).

For this reason, I post on YouTube almost never (I must have like a grand total of 3 videos). I've found Vimeo a great service instead. The only problem with it is that it's literally just hosting and it does very little promoting, and discoverability is very low. So you'd need to do the promoting yourself. If you don't mind that (or you don't want to become famous and instead prefer obscurity, as I do), Vimeo is perfect.

Where do I find a list of all posts I upvoted? :(

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Odysee is a good alternative for viewing, not too spammy. Also it can mirror videos from a YouTube account.

On linux there is FreeTube for watching YouTube without data mining. And for downloading videos to watch offline, there is the command line program yt-dlp. Yt-dlp has lots of options, eg. download just the audio of a lecture.

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YouTube's policies are making content creators create really annoying clickbait titles that are often completely disingenuous to the material. This is especially irritating when it is important information about supplements and dietary information, or political material.
It's as if they don't realize that plenty of people will just literally read the titles and not watch the videos - just assume the nonsense information in the title is actually factually correct!!!

At least this generally isn't relevant to music materials - I say generally as there will be examples of clickbait titles, such as positive reviews of hardware with negative clickbait titles.

This clickbait mentality has even spread to mainstream newspapers. They were already often full of BS before this awful practice of clickbait titles!

Unfortunately as for a viable alternative currently it looks like a really bad move to use something else if you want anything like the amount of views an interesting video may be capable of. I take no pleasure in stating this.