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@geerlingguy:

First things first: I'm on your side. But the whole content-creator industry should really start looking for and pushing alternatives to Youtube.

Floatplane from LTT folks looks promising, I wish it got more attention. It seems that only Linus and Luke actually had the balls to come up with a business model and implement the darn thing.

Otherwise you (and other content creators) sooner or later will have to decide between self-censoring and make a living.

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Nebula[1] is an alternative to YouTube for and by youtubers. I'm fairly certain it's much bigger than Floatplane. It has ad-free versions of the creators' youtube videos, early access for new videos, and exclusive content. It seems to be pretty successful.

It is also, like Floatplane, totally irrelevant without the pull from YouTube, because that's where the audience finds these creators in the first place.

[1]: https://nebula.tv/

I would love to love nebula, I bought a one year subscription. I let it lapse because discovery was awful, I found several nebula authors from YouTube, but never via nebula.

Nebula lacks comments and livestreams, so it is more like Netflix.

LTT is only popular because of youtube in the first place and kind of bad at what they do. I've seen lots of bad methodology and low value content so added them to my "don't recommend" list years ago. More on topic, Floatplane doesn't fix any of the problems with youtube, it's just another take on it that they're filling up with more clickbait thumbnails.

They literally have their own testing lab for hardware tests.

The regular lighter content brings in the money though, tech deep dives aren't exactly audience magnets.

I have had various ways of testing things over the years, too, and like I said, they're not doing a good job. They don't employ experts, they just project expertise to an uninformed audience.

I'm not sure why you're telling him this — he's already on floatplane and the video is available there already

https://www.floatplane.com/channel/JeffGeerling/

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