Youtube is far too expensive for anyone to try and run a competitor to. I don’t think we’ll ever see a replacement.
Google is still losing money on it, and might never make it profitable. There’s a real risk that Youtube just dies on its own and nothing replaces it.
Odysee and Rumble are actually really solid alternatives to YouTube. They’re just missing the content. No, they’re not as good as YouTube, but they’re good enough.
The problem really is that if Odysee for example got really big, one of the other corporate giants would just buy it and turn it into shit, there seems to be no winning this battle in the long term.
edit: wow I just want there and its pretty obvious they have zero moderation there, the content is overrun with conspiracy garbage and anti-government insanity. That place is DOA.
It depends on how long people will desire long form video content. Maybe 15 years?
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I’m constantly forced to find new extensions that hide Youtube Shorts because they stop working regularly.
@IsThisLemmyOpen Reddit is not dead, yet.
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