So Elon gutted Twitter, and people jumped ship to Mastodon. Now spez did… you know… and we’re on Lemmy and Kbin. Can we have a YouTube to PeerTube exodus next? With the whole ad-pocalypse over there, seems like Google is itching for it.

  • F4stL4ne@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    YouTube has a bunch of issues:

    1/ climate change:

    • A big centralised server needs lots of power, of cooling, a big pipe for upload/download,
    • algorithms, metrics, content id, big size imagery (4k), all this is really needing a bunch of energy in itself to run,
    • advertising in general is an ecological nightmare.

    2/ monetisation:

    • content id is a gamble for creators. A video can be demonetised for the dumbest reasons under the pretext of copyright infringement,
    • no one knows how the algorithm works, it means one video can be suggested to a lot of people and the next one won’t. So income is randomised,
    • the purpose of monetisation for content creators exist to legitimate the advertising and the monetisation of user’s personal data’s. Not the other way around. YouTube is not a platform made to retribute creators.

    Going on Peertube could mostly fix every ecological problems for the lost of the uncertainty of the monetisation system.

    Plus there is a psychological weigh on creators that goes with the monetisation and algorithm of YouTube.