It’ll never happen, until they make YT premium so prohibitively expensive that a majority of users no longer want to pay. If they’re smart, they’ll keep it at the current price until it starts losing money, because their effective monopoly is YouTube’S most valuable asset. Once they get any kind of decent competition, the whole house of cards tumbles.
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IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
We need a real YouTube alternative.
theangriestbird@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Chozo@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Won't happen. Google ran YouTube at a net loss for a decade before turning a profit. Very few companies have the kind of money to invest like that. Video hosting is crazy expensive, especially when it's free.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
Given the number of porn video websites now, I don’t think the cost of video hosting is the major issue.
The bigger issue is likely having to moderate the site. Twitch focused on live streaming as a way to reduce exposure to copyrighted content and TikTok kept videos short enough that it could skate around fair use by not being able to air longer form copyrighted content.