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0 pointsnextlevelwizard4y ago0 comments

If you want to look it like that wouldn't the "original sin" be making poor quality stuff and expecting someone to pay for it?

Yeah, I can watch someone pour molten metal on safety glass, that seems interesting, but I wouldn't pay for it. It isn't that interesting.

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criley24y ago

It isn't poor quality stuff. Just because you don't like the content that Youtube creators make doesn't make it poor quality

Ironically, when I go to Peertube, all the content there is objectively low quality with extremely poor production value, little to no editing, and clearly done with the lowest of budgets.

The content airing on Youtube from the top ~1000+ creators is easily as good or better than the majority of cable TV.

It's often extremely high quality content, frankly.

nextlevelwizardOP4y ago

Production quality with fancy cameras and editing doesn't make the content good. It makes it fancy.

And yes there are some Youtubers whose I have subscribed to and their content is often great. However it is not consistently great enough to pay for it just like cable TV. And that is just the top 1% of the top 1%. Rest is at best mediocre and often just grabage.

criley24y ago

Again, that's your personal opinion which clearly deviates from the public opinion. It's okay to not like it, but to call it bad because you dislike it is ridiculous.

We're talking about business models here, we're talking about a whole industry, and you should realize that your opinion is worse than useless, it's actively harming your ability to understand and predict

If PeerTube wants to be a 0.00001% write off for radical CopyLeftists and "Hackers" to put up some low effort, low value, "good" content then so be it but to even bring up Youtube in a conversation of yet-another-tiny-site is silly, because that concept is not competing with Youtube and could never compete with Youtube.

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criley24y ago

It isn't poor quality stuff. Just because you don't like the content that Youtube creators make doesn't make it poor quality

Ironically, when I go to Peertube, all the content there is objectively low quality with extremely poor production value, little to no editing, and clearly done with the lowest of budgets.

The content airing on Youtube from the top ~1000+ creators is easily as good or better than the majority of cable TV.

It's often extremely high quality content, frankly.

nextlevelwizardOP4y ago

Production quality with fancy cameras and editing doesn't make the content good. It makes it fancy.

criley24y ago

Again, that's your personal opinion which clearly deviates from the public opinion. It's okay to not like it, but to call it bad because you dislike it is ridiculous.

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