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Seriously, what's up with big sites literally dying as we speak? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Twitch is going to a 50/50 revenue split while offering nothing in return.

Twitch CEO had an interview a few days ago saying that most big creators get their revenue via sponsors, so taking 50% isn't bad. (dumb take)

Twitch announced a couple days ago they are putting HEAVY restrictions on any sponsor stuff, basically banning them all together. So now the 50/50 split is the only way to make money.

Twitch went back on their word yesterday, but the fact they already tried this, doesn't look good on them. Most large creators are moving away to YouTube/Kick/etc when their contracts are up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn't the big reason YouTube stays strong is the ability for creators to earn money on the platform? Honestly kind of waiting for them to screw that up. It just makes too much sense for it not to get screwed up lol.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

YouTube has a TON of terrible policies. I mean, the entire reason YouTube videos have sponsored sections in their videos is because YouTube screwed over creators during "adpocolypse".

The issue is that nothing can replace YouTube. Hosting that much data is unbelievably costly. No other company is willing to put up with that, especially when other companies aren't ad companies, so they don't profit as much on data.

Google is in it for the long haul. Once a really good efficient video compression or codec comes out, Google will be laughing. Pied piper is their dream lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I read that wiki page, and most of it is that big advertisers pulled advertising, not Youtube doing anything proactively. The idea that advertisers are going to want to be next to anything that can blow up in the media is pretty crazy - they want non-offensive content to the widest possible audience, hence blandness. IDK, I don't have any complaints about most of the channels affected based on the description on that wiki page. I think pre 2017 Advertisers just didn't know they were playing next to that sort of content.

I mean, there is peertube, and I guess if you want something too edgy for Youtube there's that, bitchute, the porn sites and onlyfans right? Again, those sites are either federated or don't depend on the same ad buyers, though IDK how much anyone outside of maybe bitchute wants various racists and bigots on their site. I'm not even sure if you could straight up pay someone like vimeo or AWS to host some video content lol.