So you’ve all see videos from the likes of Emkay and Updoot Studios or the like right? The ones that shamelessly steal Reddit content and reads it, no attribution or linkback to the original, all while making fuck-you levels of ad revenue?
Are we going to start seeing those channels pivot to Lemmy soon? What’s everyone’s thoughts on that?
I find the idea mostly frustrating because you just know that they’re all rich. All their videos have millions or tens of millions of views and all of them are monetized. In fact they go out of their way to water down edgy posts to keep AdSense happy while diluting and destroying whatever humor the vulgarities in that post might have been intended to bring. Meanwhile, Lemmy devs are mostly unpaid since it’s an open source project, and most instance owners are losing money on server costs in order to host a space for people to enjoy.
Hey, if any YouTube channels see this and you end up making Lemmy content videos, instead of offering lip service on how much you support creators or this platform or anything, maybe take some of your Lemmy content revenue and donate it to the development fund or to the instance where you got the content from, thanks. Then people will be less likely to say you stole it.
Eventually.
Sadly, the content these channels put out isn’t even good in my opinion, it’s just background noise for people doing something.
I’ve never seen a post they’ve featured and had to go look for it because I was so curious. It’s all the lowest common denominator memes meant to appeal to I assume mostly children and pre-teens.
Not necessarily.
For example, my mom frustratingly loves to watch those content farm videos of stories about Karens being owned or malicious compliance or even up all night type stuff, and also doesn’t recognize that most of the original stories were made up in the first place. She’ll never use Reddit or Lemmy though, she barely uses the internet which is why she doesn’t understand why they would be fake.
Probably. It’s a good thing for Lemmy, it’ll drive people to join it.
Is that a good thing necessarily?
A problem with these kind of alternative websites (not just the Fediverse but definitely including it) is that their users often have conflicting desires for their website to grow as big as the original while also wanting to maintain a smaller and usually smarter (or at least more techy) userbase, dreading the idea of an eternal September.
Personally I get it, but I think mass adoption of the federated model would ultimately do more for the world. Lemmy being small might be better for talking about combatting the corporations, but Lemmy becoming the norm over Reddit (which I’ll admit I think is unlikely and certainly carries it’s own issues to figure out) would actually weaken the corporations.
If Lemmy ends up with enough interesting content that it supplants Reddit as a source for vapid YouTube channels’ content, I see that as a win for Lemmy.
Imagine if we end up being used for PeerTube content farms instead
If this is the thing that ends up reviving SootHouse I’m for it. The others can go fuck themselves tho.
please correct me if i’m wrong but youtube is really trying to crack down on content like that so i don’t think it’s a concern
How? I never see that type of content, but what exactly is google going to do about it?
