YouTube isn’t nearly as much as the other two, there’s an arms race starting with ad blockers, but Reddit and Twitter are on a whole other level of nastyness.
Any alternatives for YouTube? I feel like that one is the hardest to replace tbh
Not really. PeerTube is a federated video platform, but there’s very little content since there’s no incentive for creators to switch.
I will put videos there not trying to make a profit just want to post videos.
Also all the peer tube providers I’ve looked at are filled with right wing hateful stuff, since they can’t post that stuff on YouTube. At this point the only way to get big YouTubers to switch to any other platform would be for YouTube to shut down entirely
Libredirect has a bunch of options, if you are affected :D
Rumble
I agree…I think YouTube hasn’t pushed users away as much as they have made it harder for creators to make original content that will rise above annoying self-promoting channels that go from fad to fad.
The thing that confuses me is that these are all happening at the same time. What gives?
Tech companies have been working on a “screw profit, focus on growth” thing for about a decade now, living off of Venture Capital influxes and the like. The VC money was slowly drying up before COVID, but COVID made a short-term boom in the tech sector, and a lot of businesses overexpanded during this time.
Now, the growth in the sector is slowing, and all that VC money is really, really drying up fast. So you have a lot of companies making similarly “bad” decisions at the same time because they’re chasing growth that just isn’t possible anymore. So now they’re turning to tricks and scams to squeeze more value out of their userbase, whether that’s locking up APIs so they can charge more money for data access (Twitter, Reddit) or just straight turning off services because they cost too much (Snapchat shutting down gfycat after buying them).
Essentially, the casino that was the tech sector is finally waking up with a hangover and realizing that maybe it made a lot of really poor bets, and now they’re scrambling to break even so their wife won’t know how much money they threw away on hookers and blow.
That indeed makes sense. Thanks for the explanation :)
threw away on hookers and blow
In some parts of the tech sector this is a very literal case
The tech economy’s not doing so well and ai has become the new craze, so investors aren’t throwing money at social media sites, wjich is making them strain for any source of revenue they think might have a chance
I actually read an article on the Verge about this after making my comment. The article basically said exactly this.
Yeah, same! As if they made an arrangement about this.
Interest rates have gone up and this (generally) makes it harder to take out huge loans and run at a loss, which has been the standard big tech strategy for a long time. The bills are coming due for these companies that have existed solely on credit, and they are flailing trying to achieve the financial growth their shareholders demand without the huge advantage of free capital.
I remember the first time someone sent me a YouTube link. Opened up AOL Messenger and a buddy from school asked me if I had heard panic at the disco. Sent over a link with I write sins not tragedies Found Smosh right after. Early YouTube was great
Ahh nostalgia… sad sniff
This comment makes me feel ancient and I don’t like it.
Revanced manager has the ability to patch twitter, YouTube, twitch, spotify and tiktok APIs. Never see an ad at all these days.
They are coming for that shit too just you wait
The constant co-evolution of control and resistance.
Oh they will. But they have to pay devs and lawyers to do that. But the beauty of opensource is, there are many more people motivated to find work arounds for free.
To be fair, having Musk at the helm of one of those should be considered cheating at bullshit bingo. I don’t think there’s a single week without Musk not doing anything completely idiotic that further sinks the company. Firing programmers by line of code? Answering mails from the press with a poop emoji? Not paying rent for the offices? Twitter blue and its… I don’t even know what’s that anymore? And the list goes on and on and on.
That’s true, but locking out those, you earn money with, was unexpected, even for Musk.
What did YouTube do tho?
Trying to lock you out, if you didn’t pay for premium and using an Adblocker instead.
Doesn’t happen to me on firefox using ublock origin. I’ve never seen an ad on youtube and i just got done watching a bunch of music videos.
They haven’t rolled it out to everyone. It’s being tested.
For me neither, but that feature also isn’t implemented yet. So this could change at anytime.
They’re rolling out blocking videos for people who use adblockers. Google’s ad business is finally saying “no” to anyone who tries to get around watching ads.
Ads ruin everything. Just ask Bill Hicks.
