PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google
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You are correct. Websites, the stack to supply video encoding, even scalability is a solved problem.
The hard work isn't technical, it's getting people onto your platform in the first place (marketing), getting people to continue using your platform (retention) and the perennial problems of SaaS evolving with other SaaS platforms (how many dev hours are you willing to eat trying to keep up with the Joneses?).
SaaS, and in this case, SaaS offering content, is a losing game. You will either lose your shirt, sell your business, or become entrenched in a position whose inertia is difficult to break. How much of any of those you are willing to take a firehose of is the question.
It's not easy, but you're not guaranteed to end up
either lose your shirt, sell your business, or become entrenched in a position whose inertia is difficult to break
It depends on the personalities involved and the business model they go with.
Nebula has done really well with consistent growth as a premium offering where people pay one subscription fee to get ad-free videos from exclusively high-quality creators across a quote broad range of niches, in addition to bonus extras and Nebula Originals.
Dropout seems to have a lot of success with a range of mostly unscripted comedy, centred around a core cast of trusted comedic actors with a larger range of guests.
Floatplane, on the other hand, seems much less successful, probably owing to its business model being basically Patreon's, but only for video. Instead of the wide range of content you get for surprisingly reasonable amounts of Nebula and Dropout, Floatplane ends up looking very expensive if you want to support more than one or two creators. Plus the creators on it haven't got the same degree of trust; it ends up reeking of the sort of techbro vibes that people are explicitly trying to get away from.
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Cartman brah
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Really didn't like him when he was younger, he was a naive swedish kid that didn't realize that the dumb shit he said online had ramifications because his audience was so big. He helped platform Ben Shapiro to a younger generation when he had him on his channel for a video, he had that scandal where he said the n word, and then of course the clip where he says the glass ceiling doesn't exist. It's clear to me he didn't realize the cultural and political ramifications of that stuff in America because he was never really exposed to it growing up in Sweden, and he was a cocky 20 something that thought he knew everything.
I hope these days he's realizing how idiotic some of that shit was and is actually trying to use his platform to make his viewers aware of valid issues rather than spouting off about topics he knows nothing about to his viewers who take his word as truth.
He also paid some Africans to hold an anti-semitic sign. To prove people will do things for money I think?
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Download the video before YouTube takes it down. I want to see that site flooded with reuploads if they do.
It will stay up. Do you know how many YouTube videos there are badmouthing Google? They don't care so long as you're watching them.
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How can he be done with Google and still posting YouTube videos?
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Waiting for the episode where he finds out who owns YouTube ðŸ«
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I'm loving Pewdie's redemption arc
That's going to be one long arc though
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has he stopped "accidentally" naziing?
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That's going to be one long arc though
Let's hope so.
What's next, Open source electric car? Building and living in an Earth Ship?
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Waiting for the episode where he finds out who owns YouTube ðŸ«
The thumbnail has a big ole X over the word youtube. I think he knows
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Waiting for the episode where he finds out who owns YouTube ðŸ«
I see you didn't make it 40s into the video.
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i don't want to watch pewdiepie, can someone explain what's his beef here
He switched to linux a while back. Now he's trying to switch as much of the rest of his digital life to FOSS/non-profit stuff. He advocates for duckduckgo, firefox, paid email, graphene os, selfhosted vaultwarden, nextcloud, anything but google maps, kodi, etc.
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Guy's an ass, but if this gets people on board with degoogling then good for him.
I disagree. Things seem to get worse when the herds move to them. It’s as if things are good precisely because they aren’t there.
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I see you didn't make it 40s into the video.
Why would anyone watch a pewdiepie video?
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That boy doing so much work for privacy and linux communities. I love it!
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How can he be done with Google and still posting YouTube videos?
watch the video and you will find out wink
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I disagree. Things seem to get worse when the herds move to them. It’s as if things are good precisely because they aren’t there.
bro, open your mind for a minute. Privacy is for everyone. And we need masses wanting privacy otherwise nothing changes.
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I see you didn't make it 40s into the video.
Listen, we don't read the article and we don't watch the video before commenting. Maybe we're reading the headline first. Maybe. This is the way and it has always been the way.
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I was actually kinda wondering the other day why super large content creators with good cash flow from what they already do, don't ditch Google and Patreon or anything else that takes a cut to be nothing more than a middleman to accessing the content? They don't need to host on the same level as YouTube; they could probably make more money hosting their videos on their own website, where they can control what is free or paid for, and can work directly with advertisers themselves.
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I love that entrepreneurial attitude. If an online service is unsatisfactory, just develop your own software from the ground up and provision the infrastructure from your pocket. Car industry sucks? Just build your own car! GPU prices high? Grab a soldering iron and a handful of sand, how hard could it be?
Things are always more complex than they appear. The whole point of services like Youtube and Patreon is to offload that complexity onto the provider in exchange for a fee (or some other form of compensation) from the user. Just look at how many early Lemmy instances have gone offline because of the overwhelming financial or administrative burden. Hate the companies all you like, and by all means look for independent solutions, but don't pretend they offer no value whatsoever.
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Accurate once again
