A viable YouTube competitor, including its social and recommendation features, but without the ad-based business model making it so... fraught. I am happy with (and pay for) YouTube, but I'd love competition in this space.
A competitor would have to do a lot, unfortunately, to compete with YouTube. YouTube is so much more than just video hosting, and enough time has passed without any serious competition that YouTube is nearly insurmountable. Sure, you can make a YouTube "clone" easily, but does it support live streaming at large scale? Does it allow for superchats? Can it serve 4k? What about buying and watching shows and movies? The only thing that comes close to competing is TikTok, which is a gimmick and not truly in the same space. There's BitChute, but because that becomes the refuge for all the people kicked off YouTube, it's easy for the media to paint them as "far right"; the same will likely be true for anyone who creates a real alternative to YouTube.
A competitor would need to operate at youtube's scale for it to be considered a serious competitor. Otherwise, we wouldn't be having this conversation, given that websites like Dailymotion and Vimeo exist, but no "youtube stars" use them.
Agree on both points. It's become fashionable to speak ill of youtube, but it's one of the very few major things that has truly changed the world for the better; not just entertainment but all fields related to education or life-long learning, or science vulgarization, etc.
And yes, YT should have worthy competitors, and it's surprising that it doesn't. YT is obviously very profitable; why don't other big competitors don't give it a try, with a similar angle? TikTok is wildly different, and so is Twitch; but a version of Twitch that would directly compete with YT doesn't seem that hard to implement if you're Amazon?
I would. Not because I necessarily even want to use it. But at this point, I consider any competition to Youtube to be a good thing. It's been over a decade without Youtube having a single viable alternative, and I want that to end.
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