But now it seems like there's more criminal profit potential in extortion, as creators are ever more dependent on ever-more-centralized services. A growth industry!
as creators decided to make themselves ever more dependent on ever-more-centralized services.
Nebula is one example where some of the more education-focused channels have been posting videos. Not sure if it’s been successful though.
And from my experience, people overwhelmingly watch YouTube on phones or tablets, and wouldn’t be messing around with anything like BitTorrent. If you think that is a good alternative, then you are not representative of the average YouTube user.
Yeah, probably not, as I never visit the site except through links or if I need a how-to-repair video. There's no reason people can't consume video through torrent or other p2p tech though. Webtorrents, peertube, etc are relatively mainstream and completely painless to use. There also exist torrent clients on Android for maaany years.
How well did creators do when they switched to Mixer from Twitch? Donald Trump had tons of Twitter followers, how many does he have on Truth Social? If you have a two sided marketplace, you need people on both sides for it to succeed.
Historically some people have decided to sell themselves into slavery, should we respect their freedom of choice?
Not just interface layout or visual themes, either— design is a lot more than the way something looks. The whole experience from learning about the platform to becoming a regular user— including for people who don't read man pages on a regular basis— is important. As soon as I need to explain to my parents that "yes, it's all PeerTube but PeerTube is just the server software and my cousin's PeerTube instance they signed up with isn't connected to the PeerTube federated service and so they can't see videos from the the PeerTube for their guitar hobby group" then its all over. There is zero point zero percent chance it will become a viable public service without big changes.