• TemporaryBoyfriend@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I’m truly surprised there hasn’t been a successful YouTube competitor in the last decade or so.

    I suspect the problem is that people wouldn’t even pay a penny per video to content creators. From what I’ve seen of other competing video sites, there’s a really serious moderation issue stopping them from wide adoption… So many of the competing sites are full of flat earth / anti-vax / pro-fascism content…

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      1 year ago

      I expect tik tok to make a long form video tab and compete directly. The way that YouTube made shorts to compete with tik tok.

    • ThePaSch@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      I’m truly surprised there hasn’t been a successful YouTube competitor in the last decade or so.

      Running a video service the size of YouTube carries astronomical traffic and storage costs. Google is probably one of the only companies in the world that can stem that.

      There’s smaller video sharing sites, like DailyMotion, but those would probably instantly crash and burn if their userbase were to suddenly grow to the size of YouTube’s.