Where’s the piped link?
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mesamunefire@piefed.social 10 months agoThere's a piped link. But yeah people are still using YouTube for all this...which is kinda silly.
Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
mesamunefire@piefed.social 10 months ago
I wonder if people outside of piefed cant see the piped link that gets auto-added to every video: https://piefed.social/post/1136483/comment/7480038
piped: https://piped.video/watch?v=mGnR3C8bVLA?rel=0
It may or may not work depending if piped itself is working.
Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Oh neat, I had no idea piefed did that. Can confirm it’s not visible in thunder for Lemmy at least.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 10 months ago
Oh interesting! Good to know thanks.
I may have to add those in when I remember it.
dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com 10 months ago
I’m all for using other things, but the reality is that YouTube has a de facto monopoly on video hosting on the internet. If you want reach on the internet, it’s YouTube or basically nothing. Therefore YouTube is the best place to get YouTube users upset at YouTube.
Other companies which could compete with YouTube on scale host porn and choose not to make a “clean” version to compete.
artyom@piefed.social 10 months ago
This is, however, a sulf-fulling prophecy. As long as people maintain that mentality the cycle can never be broken.
dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com 10 months ago
Totally. It’s network effects, really. People will only leave if the content or people they follow leave. And right now there aren’t many good platforms which comparably pay creators based on watch time / play count of static media, so the creators won’t leave.
artyom@piefed.social 10 months ago
The vast majority of people uploading to YT aren't (or weren't) looking to make money. They didn't even used to pay you anything. People make videos because they're creators and they like sharing things with the world.
Aside from that YT only has 1 more revenue method than any other platform. There are a dozen other ways to monetize their content.