So Elon gutted Twitter, and people jumped ship to Mastodon. Now spez did… you know… and we’re on Lemmy and Kbin. Can we have a YouTube to PeerTube exodus next? With the whole ad-pocalypse over there, seems like Google is itching for it.

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      1 year ago

      At the very least competition is needed.

      YouTube is getting increasingly user-hostile with monetization with the huge increase in pre-roll and mid-roll ads, starting to lock resolutions above 1080p behind a paywall ( this was reported months ago but I’ve recently stumbled into my first two videos where 1080p60 and above was paywalled), and even getting aggressive on adblockers.

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        1 year ago

        If I recall correctly, they are also testing 10 unskippable ads before sone videos now, right? Fun times ahead!

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      I would rather go for reasonable competition. Ideally more than one. I really enjoy nebula for example.