Hooktube or Youtube? Which is preferred?

[–] InnocentBystander [OP] 3 points (+3|-0)

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That's too simplified of a statement to be accurate.
Some YT clicks come with a pittance for creators. But as long as YT has a monopoly it is the creators that will suffer for it.
I would say that you harm the creators by supporting a monopoly.

Many YT creators would love to leave, but they know that the viewers will not.

So I think you've got the first point backwards, you're not helping creators.
The second point is a good one.

[–] PMYA 1 points (+2|-1)

I do not share your optimism. There's no way someone is going to create a platform where people are paid for creating videos on the same scale as YouTube. It is a miracle that such a thing even exists, in my opinion. If anyone tried to adopt the YouTube model, they would never be able to make the site keep itself afloat, not even anywhere close.

[–] InnocentBystander [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

Twitch?
What do you see as being a barrier against a start-up?

The tec is pretty straight-forward, the hardware is reasonable. I don't see any reason outside of market factors, that it would be especially difficult.
I run a hobby-site that hosts (non-video) content that sends about 300-400gigs of data transfer per month. That is nothing compared to what video hosting rates would be, but coffee is the largest expense involved with running my site.
Coffee.

I don't have any direct experience/knowledge of video hosting, but I don't see where extra and huge costs would come from.
Advertising income would scale up with a site, and should be able to make it a player.
The reason it doesn't happen, I believe, is the entry-fee, and buy-outs. Those can be overcome when there's a clear demand.

[–] PMYA 0 points (+1|-1)

Twitch is a completely different situation, and is also owned by a massive company that could afford to take losses if it came to that. Twitch's financial model would not translate to a video host.

There are a number of things that would prevent another host from replacing YouTube. The first is that nobody making a living from YouTube is going to stop using YouTube unless they find themselves in a situation where they can't make money anymore. That kind of happened a little bit with people moving to twitch over the past year or two.

The initial cost of setting up a video host makes it unlikely that people are going to try setting one up as a project. Companies that do have the resources to do it aren't going to bother, because YouTube is not a money maker.

The only way this ever happens is with some kind of distributed hosting, which nobody is going to give a fuck about because the majority of YouTube users are normies or children.

There is also the issue with content takedowns. If your startup gets an influx with a shit ton of stuff being uploaded, good luck pulling all of the porn and copyrighted content down.

It just seems as though we are not quite ready to have an alternative.

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