After Louis pinned and liked an anti masker comment under on of his videos and moving to Texas where the comment section on his video is starting to be filled by pro-gun right wingers and free speech absolutists, I stopped watching his content altogether.
That might not be his intention, but his libertarian views sure attracts certain crowds.
It’s sad, because he’s convincing and persuasive when it comes to talking about repair rights, anti-monopoly, etc. But I suppose that’s the same sentiments experienced by people who listen to Jordan Peterson, before sliding down into the incel rabbithole.
“Libertarians” are those certain crowds
Yep he made a video talking about how his employee had some rare reaction to the vaccine and started to spew conspiracy theories and say that they aren’t wrong. Sucks I agree with his right to repair stuff but his channel is a total cesspool of right wing nuts now. Not to mention he moved to Texas and doesn’t seem to have a problem with some of their abortion and authoritarian laws.
Eli the computer guy […] had this show up in his dashboard: “grow your Channel’s popularity and engagement by promoting your video on YouTube, running a promotion helps attract new viewers who can boost your subscriptions, views, likes, and other engagement” and the way this works is your videos will show up if you pay them. YouTube is trying to get people who make content on YouTube to pay for views now.
Isn’t this kind of basic in terms of content marketing?
One entity makes content then pays another company to promote it?
What else would Luis being doing if he actually had to pay for the storage space YouTube gives him for free? Handing out CDs on the street?
Is he aware that companies like Pinterest already do this?
I can’t say that the sudden huge drop in viewership isn’t suspicious though.
It makes sense if you think about it like basic marketing
But the thing is Youtube already promoted channels through it’s algorithm. Having to pay for it implies that something has changed regarding it.
I think what’s worse is that the content seemed to be less visible even to his subscribers. The discoverability of your content to new people who are not actively looking for it is one thing, bit hiding it from people who have actively said they want to view it is another thing entirely.
the content seemed to be less visible even to his subscribers
Am I the only one who still uses the subscriptions page? I get a chronological list of all my subscribed channel’s video releases. I have seen zero indication that I’m missing anything at all, and I fairly frequently go to channel’s pages to check that my subscription list is complete.
I’ve never clicked a single notification bell, and don’t rely on the home page’s recommendations/sorting, unless I’m actively seeking out new recommendations.
I’ve only ever used the subscription page
it became clear to me that the main discovery page on youtube would never be of any use to me when it suggested a video entitled “Andrew Tate Tucker Carlson Interview” by the channel “Gentleman Masterclass” and i almost projectile vomited all over my keyboard
To my thinking, it’s time to get folks on a federated platform. Here is a graphic of the various fediverse platforms. I know off of the top of my head about PeerTube. I just learned about the others.
PeerTube would absolutely be the alternative here. It’s challenging though - if YouTube can’t make money hosting your content on a large scale, what makes you think you’ll make money hosting it on a smaller scale?
Some might manage to finance it through crowdfunding, and as the Fediverse grows hopefully it’ll manage to self-sustain content creators here so that discoverability of content on PeerTube will increase. The future is not necessarily all that bleak, but it’s still a long way to get there.
I’m adamant the only viable YouTube replacement is a subscription service.
Nebula is an alternative with a lot of content creators I subscribe to. It started off very lanky, but is getting better. I’m just hoping they can attach more talent to switch from Youtube.
I don’t think that professional content creators are going to like the Fediverse very much. The design inherently limits their reach and there’s significantly less money in it for them. I don’t think it works as a profession here in its current form.
Agreed. The Fediverse does not lend itself to earning a living, at least for now. Maybe one day it will be possible.
