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People have given me shit about paying for YouTube Premium. They scoff at it. Imagine the cost for an entity without that sort of purchasing power. The cost would probably be a lot higher for resources.

People can already get out of the ad model on YouTube. There's literally an ad free option you can pay for right now. But few people do. I just don't buy the idea that it's economically viable for YouTube to drop the ad model today. Hell, a lot of people aren't even willing to deal with ads even though it pays for their use of the platform. They block them lol

People don't want ads, yet most of them clearly aren't willing to pay for the service. I'm not sure where the big Nostr solution is here. This is a cultural issue more than a technical one. YouTube would dump the ad model if it was actually better for business to do so. Is it really predatory if people are choosing it?

Matt 8mo ago 💬 2

Rough estimates seem to be about 100M Premium users out of 2.49B total.

Roughly 4%?

So ~96% of YouTube users are unwilling to pay for the service to avoid the ad model.

A percentage of those (I found about 11% - or more than double the number of Premium subscribers - lol) aren't even willing to deal with the ads on to pay for their use. They just want to pay nothing.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see #Nostr replacing YouTube without using the same models *today* in the current culture. The best case I see would be an ad model that's more transparent.

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Matt 8mo ago 💬 1

There's probably something relevant here for Nostr in general. I only pay for one of my relays, and it's a stupid low amount. Most of the network that already exists seems to be mostly charity. Charity will run dry really fast at the costs involved with something like video hosting. It may work for a super niche group (like us), but global YouTube levels? Not seeing it. I want to. But I don't. Even if we do it, content diversity will be so low that most of us still use YT anyway.

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