It grew because it was the only platform that did it.
If you want views, you have to go where the viewers are. Current alternatives are sorely lacking.
If you want the smaller platforms to grow, you do need to post there, but ignoring the existing giant won’t get you seen unfortunately. At the very least, you should do both.
Stop uploading content to YouTube - there are other hosts
Better yet, this would be much better and easier to host as written instructions.
Sure. You could upload it to peer-tube, and have it be seen by a whole 11 people!
There was a time Youtube videos would only be seen by 11 people. But it grew because people posted videos anyway.
It grew because it was the only platform that did it.
If you want views, you have to go where the viewers are. Current alternatives are sorely lacking.
If you want the smaller platforms to grow, you do need to post there, but ignoring the existing giant won’t get you seen unfortunately. At the very least, you should do both.
What’s wrong with that?
A little ironic that this comment posted on Lemmy (tiny competitor to reddit)
Viewers go where the content is, yes, but you don’t get content on alternative sites if you don’t post there.
YouTube in the old days was awesome. Then Google happened to it. When it first started it was quite small.
Principles matter!
That would be great for those 11 people.
In this case, you could upload it to YouTube where it will be taken down and seen by a whole no people
No no. It’ll still be seen by thousands before it’s taken down.
Thousands of bots.
Also it has to get around the many rules Youtube itself has for the all mighty algorithm.