That's basically it. The only potential competitor is Twitch, but even then Amazon only really gets into free streaming content.
Google has cheap hosting costs and the best ad market in the industry. The only non-porn competitors either charge the uploader to host or charge the user to watch.
I’m not saying it being a YouTube parasite is a BAD thing. But as long as it’s primarily getting it’s views from people who started watching on YouTube first, “parasite” is an apt description.
Also fighting copyright claims from the music and movie industry is even more expensive and difficult.
Microsoft (with their Azure) has more than enough storage space. They got CDNs and video streaming technologies (that anyone can use in their own products). But they've still given up their own music streaming service and public video upload service.
Well it doesn't hurt that they have some of the fastest servers on the planet running everything, and boatloads of data centers for storage and backups. Have you ever noticed how rarely videos will buffer nowadays? Even at extremely high resolution their videos will load almost instantly on only an average internet connection. A lot of other places can't say the same, because it takes a very big investment to have world class servers and data connections.
I agree that becoming too associated with nazi trolls (which are uniquely a problem in a way that even other sorts of extremists are not, because of the paradox of tolerance) is a huge danger to nascent platforms. I'm not sure what to do about it either, except maybe to continue trying to promote the platforms even despite the risk of offending them in hopes that they can grow faster than they lose reputation. And in the case of Peertube, defederating from instances hosting hateful content, I guess.
By the way, this...
implying that all lgbtq+ people are p*dophiles, which is a completely fucked and cruel thing to say
...is actually an understatement. What they're actually doing is engaging in the equivalent of blood libel and trying to incite a pogrom.
…is actually an understatement. What they’re actually doing is engaging in the equivalent of blood libel and trying to incite a pogrom.
thanks, i didn't have sufficient vocabulary to describe before. But I mean the Tiktok creator was they were talking about in the video was Dylan Mulvaney, whose big transgression in the eyes of these people was getting sent a can of Bud Light from Bud Light officially that had her face on it. She was being sent tons of death threats and, iirc, it started to overflow into her real life where she was being harassed irl and she became afraid to leave her home for a while, which is what the video mainly focused on. It just blew my mind that someone could have so little empathy as to suggest she deserved to be treated that way (and potentially worse if she hadn't taken steps to protect herself) over something so small.
and as for what to do, i agree with you generally. it's just that when i navigated to Veritasium's most recent video on Odysee and saw the homophobia in the comments (which, btw, they must be obsessed with gay people cuz the video is totally unrelated to the subject?) i didn't feel completely right not mentioning how many nazis there seem to be around on these platforms in case it puts anyone else off as much as it puts me off. Louis Rossman made a video fairly recently where he talked a bit about PeerTube and Odysee and he said something like, "I keep seeing people in my comments talk about hating Google and Youtube and wanting to move to another platform, but when I recommend PeerTube or Odysee they say there's not enough content on them, or they don't like the people on them: well you should pick one." he went on - "right now these are essentially the only alternatives to Youtube and if you want a platform that is more respectful of consumers, viewers, and their privacy and rights in general, they're basically your only options and you may have to just put up with the downsides for now." Essentially going on to argue that more content creators will start posting on them when they see them as worth posting on, which would be when they have substantial enough userbases, and the prevalence of moderate and mainstream views would push away the extremists as has sometimes happened on other platforms, and that's generally how I lean right now too. Those also may not have been his exact words, it's been a little bit since I watched his video.
I would love if a leftist instance was created on PeerTube, heck I'd be happy with a moderate instance, but I have struggled so far to find one that seems what I at least would describe as well moderated.