@backus this thread on HN prompted me to think about YouTube's demonetization "crisis" and how it's affected content creators https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17577372 …
...and how that relates to some of what you've been discussing re: decentralization
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I think we haven't seen a jump to decentralized YouTube not just because of network effects and brand equity already being in place, but because on the internet demand matters so much more than supply (c.f. https://stratechery.com/2015/aggregation-theory/ …) YouTubers will endure a LOT to keep the audience
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So my thesis + prediction is that on the internet, any jump to a decentralized system has to be user-led, not maker- or creator-led. Obviously platform / protocol creators have to be present, but the people who supply content professionally will follow the users, not vice versa
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Interesting. Is the crisis just that people's videos get algorithmically demonetized and there is no recourse?
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Yes and often for spurious reasons. Once the demonetization is overturned by humans, if that ever even happens, the majority of viewers have already watched
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Yeah, I wouldn't expect this to do much for PeerTube. I agree switching platforms must be user-led, but it is usually subgroups exiting while the rest of the user base is unchanged. See alt-right (I think?) fleeing to voat. Wherever r/DarknetMarkets went is prob interesting too
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That also happened with Mastodon and the Fediverse in general! You get decentralization ideologues, anti-corporate people, FL/OSS people, furries, vulnerable trans people, Japanese lolicon fans who can't use Twitter http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2017/08/18/mastodon-is-big-in-japan-the-reason-why-is-uncomfortable/ … etc. etc. And sometimes they bicker
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There is something tragic and funny about how decentralized platforms like Mastodon attract extreme communities in exile as well as people that want Twitter to police speech more, add content warnings, etc
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