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minus-squaresk1nnym1ke@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·18 hours agoIt’s a vicious circle. People don’t use other video services because there aren’t much content. Content creator don’t upload their videos to other video services because there aren’t viewers.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·14 hours agoIt costs content creators almost nothing to upload to PeerTube in addition to Youtube. Shifter and Oh The Urbanity! manage it; why can’t others?
minus-squareFlax@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down3·18 hours agoPeople don’t host video sites because of how demanding and not profitable it is. YouTube doesn’t break even. Google runs it at a loss just to have that advantage.
It’s a vicious circle.
People don’t use other video services because there aren’t much content.
Content creator don’t upload their videos to other video services because there aren’t viewers.
It costs content creators almost nothing to upload to PeerTube in addition to Youtube. Shifter and Oh The Urbanity! manage it; why can’t others?
People don’t host video sites because of how demanding and not profitable it is.
YouTube doesn’t break even. Google runs it at a loss just to have that advantage.