• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      203·
      3 days ago

      Oh yeah? Which platform is gonna allow the masses to see it? Which platform won’t bury it from the masses with algorithms?

        • 74 183.84@lemmy.zip
          131·
          2 days ago

          I so badly want peertube to become popular. But I can only find either very uninteresting shit posted there or weird things. Youtube needs to die

          • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            2 days ago

            Yeah, it’ll take a long time for it to reach any kind of critical mass where people make stuff for it cause folks will watch it, and folks will be there to watch it because there’s stuff there worth watching. Discovery that isn’t a dumpster fire would help 😅

            But even then, its almost guaranteed it won’t be YouTube. The things that exist on YouTube largely can’t really exist without monetization. Maybe sponsors will eventually care about peertube views? Or folks who monetize largely through merch might still be able to make things work? But youtube is largely a job, and people will generally stay where they get paid the best :/

            But I still hope that folks other than FOSS or privacy people might slowly consider uploading to both, and eventually get to a point where it can exist in parallel for at least some amount of lower effort, or lower cost, more hobby video sharing

            • Novaling@lemmy.zipEnglish
              5·
              2 days ago

              Yeah, parallel uploads and hobby posting is the only thing we can expect from PeerTube right now. Like many others, I do want it to succeed, and I hate that my mom and I watch YT so much (it’s basically her TV), but I’ve tried to use PT and there’s just a lack of content, and difficulty in finding new interesting content. Sponsorships are gonna be the only main way to pay creators.

              Like even in a magical world where network effect didn’t exist and everyone joined it, PeerTube is still gonna struggle due to not having monetization. People love to argue, “Oh, but YT only pays them cents!” Exactly. A few cents per viewer is probably going to amount to more than the amount you would get from those who are actually willing to pay for your content, and if you get the algorithm sweet spot then you reach more people. The burden is already minimally placed on the viewer on YT (watch sponsors, join channel ($ sub), watch ads, buy merch, donate to Patreon/Ko-Fi/Personal Website/etc.), and PT ramps that burden up to 100 by having no ads nor algorithm. We have to do the work to share content and sponsor/support creators. In a perfect world, everyone has money and can give 5~10 dollars to channels they like every month or so. But the reality is I just can’t think of how many creators I actually would pay to see exclusive content… Not at the monthly price of $5~, and to multiple people anyway.

              • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                2 days ago

                Yeah, I watch tons of youtube myself and am currently working on cutting back.

                Better content algorithms or discovery would help so damn much as a start though, it’s really hard to find anything worth watching in the sea of “technically this is a video you can watch cause someone uploaded it to the internet”. Thats why I like the Peertube comm on lemmy. Its mostly the same creators but its at least some curated exposure to what’s available

            • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              2 days ago

              Victoria Explains is on there. I don’t recognize anybody else.

              Oh, and of course the obligatory Linux dudes speaking in German.

          • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            2 days ago

            Yeah that’s the other really big issue. Mastodon and Lemmy can be donation run but hosting and streaming video is expensive as fuck

        • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          2 days ago

          That’s my point. The internet ia not any different to the media for the vast majority, who consume content and propaganda carefully curated by platforms which are owned and operated by billionaire oligarchs; most of which are based in the fascist dictatorship of the USA, with CEO’s who have been granted military ranks and clearances by the fascist dictatorship.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      124·
      2 days ago

      In case anyone sees this, if you’re going to a protest try to make it look good. Don’t go with fucking dog ears, and then talk to the media. I don’t care how good of a point you make. You’re making it about yourself at that point and people will ignore everything else and just talk about that.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksM
      172·
      3 days ago

      Unless it’s change hands since last October, it’s owned by a billionaire Canadian family. It makes sense that they don’t care as much about showing this stuff.

      💲 Reuters

      ◾ Owned by the Thomson family, the wealthiest family in Canada.

      Canadian multinational information conglomerate. The company was founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and maintains its headquarters at 19 Duncan Street there.

      Thomson Reuters was created by the Thomson Corporation’s purchase of the British company Reuters Group on 17 April 2008. It is majority-owned by The Woodbridge Company (no info found), a holding company for the Thomson family of Canada.

      ◾ CEO is Steve Hasker

      Steve assumed his role of President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of Thomson Reuters effective March 15, 2020. Previously, Steve served as Senior Adviser to TPG Capital, a private equity firm, Chief Executive Officer of CAA Global (which includes entities like CAA China, merchant bank Evolution Media and the incubator CAA Ventures), a TPG Capital portfolio company, and global president and chief operating officer of Nielsen, an information, data and measurement firm. Steve spent more than a decade with McKinsey as a partner in the global media, information and technology practice. Before joining McKinsey, Steve spent five years in several financial roles in the United States, Russia and Australia.

      Steve started his career with PwC, where he qualified as a chartered accountant. He then received an MBA and master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University. He grew up in Australia and during his career he has lived and worked across North America, Europe and Asia. Steve is also a non-executive director of Appen Limited and a member of the Australia and New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants.

      Source

      • aow@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        2 days ago

        Reuters, generally, will not censor truthful information. Some stuff won’t get picked up, but they make their money from subscriptions to financially relevant news and analysis, rather than shady payments for political influence. I honestly put them a step above AP most of the time, because money talks in geopolitics.

        • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksM
          5·
          2 days ago

          I honestly put them a step above AP most of the time, because money talks in geopolitics.

          I 100% agree. 8 times out of 10 their articles are just the facts. Those 2 that aren’t though, yikes. Also, their headlines blow pretty hard sometimes too. The Guardian is probably 6 times out of 10 and those are the 2 of the 3 best IMO.

          The editor of the AP makes the AP suck about half the time. They skew their headlines and their descriptive language sometimes in the actual article. They also hide a lot of the real news from their front page.

          Propublica has been awesome for months now but are slightly going into the skewed headline territory. Mother Jones, even though when I checked on them last year they were ran by the best board, have been focusing on the puffed up articles. I’ve been sort of ignoring them lately.

  • miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    272·
    3 days ago

    “zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…oh, look over there ====================================>>>> a happy trans person!!!”

    –the media

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      I’d love a MAGA flag with Psalms 109:8-17 written on it to troll conservatives with. They’d think you’re on their side until they look it up.

        • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          That’s the point. They’d think it’s on their side because they haven’t read it. Some people will Google it though and figure out what it says.