I think the reality is that most content on YouTube isn’t really valuable. If you had to pay for each view of a video, people would be more selective. Views would come down drastically. People would be incentivized to create more valuable content than trendy viral brainrot shit. That’s my opinion. It’ll work itself out.
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That's a great point. Most of the content is probably charity hosting at this point. I've considered the benefit of a trimmed down service that incentivizes economically viable content. Nostr could be that, but that's not what YT is today. That's my point. YT as it is would be hard to replace with Nostr. I consider that a neutral opinion. Maybe replacing things is the wrong approach anyway. Because it could be that the entire model is fucked from the ground up and not worth replacing.
I think YouTube can cooexist. A lot of content doesn’t need to be on nostr. How to do an oil change on a Toyota Camry doesn’t need to be on nostr because that’s likely not going to be censored. And just the existence of nostr can keep companies like YouTube honest.
Good point. Maybe the entire thing is rotten to the core. I'm all for people trying on Nostr. I just don't think it'll be a YT replacement. But that isn't a bad thing necessarily. It's just an issue of expectation vs reality. I don't see myself fully giving up YT any time soon. But I DO want to reduce my dependency where I can. This isn't binary.