It seems as if there is a bubble about to pop tbh. Along with twitter/reddit, it seems that even youtube is desperately trying to squeeze profit from a dried lemon by testing to see if users will stop using adblockers.
DooshDoosh
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If anyone has any good info on what this is all about I would really appreciate it. kbin seems pretty intuitive but lemmy is a bit daunting.
I truly hope that we may see some YT alternatives become successful. What they're doing isn't really unprecedented in my opinion. The company has been finding increasingly more shitty ways to monetize their product in the last few years. Finding a way to incentivize the creators to move a new platform will be the biggest obstacle. It's hard to see a competitor being able to match the offer that youtube gives to its to its creators, but if things continue in the same direction they may very well shoot themselves in the foot.
Trying to get the masses on board with alternatives to giant social media sites seems like a very tall order, yet these companies seemingly do everything in their power to push us closer to change. If it is any sort of solace, I and many of my younger friends haven't used facebook almost at all recently unless we need to figure out each others birthdays lmao.