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You own the platform, you own the rules, you die from no reach as every single platform silences you if you try to get users offsite!
Yup you are only ever renting the space. This trajectory was obvious years ago but people still followed it rather than diversifying.
It’s just another extension of you’ll own nothing and be happy. The quicker people move away from google/YT and all the tech bros media the better.
I understand that dragging traffic away from YouTube/Instagram/TikTok/whatever is a monumental task but people are literally gambling with their livelihood on the hope that a corporate service will always work in their favour. You can follow the rules as conservatively as possible, YOLO and be ready to loose your account, or host your online business on your own platform.
Impossible task really do you think a federated network is going to keep every video ever posted to it like Youtube does? I mean the storage that Youtube uses must be massive.
They simply have a massive monopoly, and it is impossible to replace them, no matter how good your platform.
Because you depend in them and their buddies for advertisment.
Evidently they don't keep all of them. 😉
As a thought experiment, do you think that the ad revenue from watching ONLY videos on that guy's channel were enough to cover the operating costs and infrastructure required to store and host all of that channel's videos? If so then it should be possible, if extremely painful, to operate a vlogging business outside of YouTube.
Getting users TO your personal vlog site is a whole other problem but through Patreon (as an example) it is possible to funnel users out of the Alphabet/Meta/ByteDance networks. If any of my favorite channels were to announce they were transitioning to a new video sharing network I would gladly follow them off of YouTube.