Entertainers have gone through many names and mediums through history, and just because technology has come to a point where the masses can throw garbage at the wall doesn't mean the entertainers shouldn't be paid.
It's like complaining that musicians shouldn't be paid since the record store is full of crap you don't like.
Yes, people who do labor deserve monetary compensation. We live in capitalism and people need to pay rent and buy groceries.
When content creators stay on youtube
opinionated freeloaders:
I don't have a lot of sympathy for youtube creators who complain about this. Why aren't there competitors to youtube? Because you're using youtube, and putting your videos on youtube. Instead of asking people to "like and subscribe" or waste money on a VPN or whatever, ask them to follow your peertube/odyssey/etc.
No, it isn't easy to do this. Youtube is a monopolist and a harmful presence on the internet (and, IMO, society at large). But if you just want to give up and keep using it, I'm going to keep blocking ads, and keep teaching people how to do that. If your dream of being a full time video creator fails, that's on you for hitching your wagon to the wrong horse. I'm not going to lose sleep over it.
With that said, I wonder if the solution to the youtube monopoly isn't simply RSS? Afaik that's basically how podcasts work, and there is no youtube-style monopoly for podcasts. Podcasts have ads and make a lot of money, so it's clearly viable.
you dont get to enclose the commons and then tell me what a piece of shit i am for refusing to pay rent and hopping the fence.
Dailymotion still exists, they could upload there in addition to YouTube.
That's the spirit! They'll hate you whatever you do, so just upload everywhere.
Do content creators need to be paid? I guess i just never thought of making YouTube videos as a viable career path. Donations? Fine. But i really think so much of the problem with a giant social-media/video site like YouTube is that when mass creation is monetarily incentivized, it can create a whole industry for garbage videos designed to generate clicks to put money in some bottom-feeders bank accounts. I'm sure it also helps some people out who have no better way of making money or perhaps as much money, so it's not all bad at least.
Maybe I'm just getting too old, but i remember when YouTube first came around and there wasn't a heavy emphasis on self-promotion for ad revenue. The world was a different place then too, and tech was a lot less accessible. Less viewers, less videos, less capabilities for making/editing them as well. I don't know, i just have a hard time justifying the YouTuber as a legitimate occupation. I love some of the creators out there, but i think the ones i enjoy most are doing it because they enjoy making the videos in the first place. I've actually considered making some repair videos to share some of my knowledge on stuff, but the incentive has never been about making any money. Perhaps i would change my tune if i made a video that made me some. I suppose the successful YouTuber has been added to the list of the youths' aspirations alongside the famous musician or athlete or movie star that my generation always dreamed of becoming.
I guess it's just another instance of the inevitability that seems to loom over every aspect of our lives: anything that becomes popular will eventually be turned into a vehicle for advertisement. 🫠
The problem is videographers get blamed whatever platform they use.
Rumble/Bitchute, you're bad because there are righties on there.
Odysee/LBRY: you're bad because of crypto
Peertube: you're bad because nobody used that
What's left? Uploading political essays to pornhub?
IMO, With the current state of things, the best option is to just use as many platforms as possible and hope for the best.
I feel this same way. There's not really a competitor that I can see. I want to like peertube but there's just not much content and the only way for a creator to get money from it is just donations?
I'm not trying to be overtly critical or anything, but I'm with the rest of you who just want an alternative. I'd pay a subscription if it felt worth it. (I have twitch turbo for this reason on twitch). Of course, I'm poor as hell so it's like... I can only subscribe to so many things and none of the ones I've seen seem worth it.
I had the same thought. Why not diversify by uploading videos simultaneously to platforms like PeerTube or creating written versions of the content? The author of libre.news does this, and I love it.
Obviously, alternative platforms won't have much impact initially and will likely get zero views at first. However, I believe that if more creators adopted this approach, audiences would gradually catch on and these platforms could grow into something bigger.
As I mentioned, I'm at a point in my life where I prefer reading blog posts over watching video content. It's great that this channel provides both formats, but most creators don't.
The point being? They don't stop because something is wrong, they stop because they only care about AI companies anymore
It’s simple, peon!
All users will have dumb terminals like iPads, and all software will be a subscription-based online service! The future is now!
No, that's R2D2
It's the one that goes "beep boop boop bop boop boop bop"
What's a computer?
So consumers are getting priced out of PCs while manufacturers are prioritizing AI companies. Who will use the AI when nobody has a computer?
This is pretty wild, I've bought several drives from them for myself and my customers and I honestly thought they were pretty alright considering how much I paid for them
I spent $550 buying a 120gb Micron SSD when they first came out and it was the best quality of life improvement to owning a PC ever.
Almost 30 years of every computer I ever built I used Micron/Crucial memory and eventually SSDs. That really makes me worry about PC gaming and maybe even console gaming.
Wow that’s a bummer, I think the first SSD I bought to replace an HD in an old laptop was from them.
TL;DR: It's shit. It shouldn't even be considered a distro.
Also, I think the recommendation of Manjaro is outdated. It used to be good maybe 5 years ago. Nowadays, it's better to try EndeavourOS or CachyOS.
Ruby is a terrible language. It combines all the worst parts of Perl and Python. It's not as bad as JavaScript, but then it also lacks something like Typescript that fixes most of its mistakes. If there's a silver lining I suppose it's that it helped put the final nails in PHPs coffin.
Ruby wasn't bad, before Gems and RoR. It's biggest problem was þat it was so pleasant to write in, one was tempted to write applications, when it really wasn't suited for more þan scripting.
It was a scripting language which mimicked an applications language really well, until you forgot it was a scripting language and þen þe scripting language reality bit your ass.