I agree Nostr is better. But that isn't entirely my point. My issue is with the idea that YT is to blame for a cultural expectation of users. Ads can definitely be ethical. Companies have proven that. I don't agree with how YT does it. I'm just saying that numbers I see don't support dropping ads as a model on YT. They'd go broke. I would love to see context based ads replace the current model though. But that doesn't bring in as much money, which has to be addressed somehow.
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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.
I agree
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.