Never, the big name content creators will never boycott YouTube like Reddit mods for large subs did because YouTube pays them and no one takes alternatives seriously enough to even just mirror their content on an alternative. I’ve been trying to support YouTube alternatives as much as I can but I’m only one person, I’d be naive to think that I alone could make a difference.
There are already many other sites and as YouTube keeps getting worse and greedier there will probably be more and more creators going elsewhere.
One example is firearms content moving to utreon. And obviously nsfw which has never been welcome there being available on many other hosts.
YouTube is not the only possible video service that can exist in the world.
It’s unlikely that another monopoly can take over their business as a whole, but YouTube can definitely fail and video hosting has long been fragmented.
Peer Tube could take off by us uploading to it and linking it from Lemmy
The only problem is YouTube has a way to monetize their videos, attracting creators who work to make money on the content. PeerTube doesn’t have that yet.
Handling ads and payments is a whole other issue that federated platforms haven’t even begun to tackle yet. Crypto might be a way forward but it’s messy enough that it might turn some people off.
@IsThisLemmyOpen Reddit is not dead, yet.
It’s dead to me. 😢
I don’t think anything will ever replace YouTube. Did you ever wonder why there aren’t many good alternatives?
It’s because video streaming websites are very expensive and usually run at a loss. The storage and bandwidth to support all these users constantly uploading and watching videos is really high. It’s why the Twitch competitor Mixer shut down a few years ago, it was bleeding money.
I use an adblocker and hate ads as much as the next person but imo prople do take these video services for granted. They need ads to survive and I can’t imagine a world where I’d need to pay a subscription to use them.
I have to wonder how effective PeerTube might be in lessening the bandwidth costs at scale. So far the PeerTube instances I’ve seen have had so few users that I rarely see my computer uploading to other users or other users uploading to me.
Even then peer to peer isn’t a good solution for me because I have limited upload/download where I live.
Ah that’s unfortunate. Bandwidth caps need to die.
Odysee and Rumble are actually really solid alternatives to YouTube. They’re just missing the content. No, they’re not as good as YouTube, but they’re good enough.
Rumble is lacking so many simple features that YouTube has, like being able to just listen to content while the screen is off. YouTube seems to be the only video streaming app able to do this.
Only if you pay for YouTube Premium tho. I use the YouTube mobile site with either Brave or Firefox + Video Background Play Fix extension to workaround this silly limitation.
