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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

With Reddit shutting down its API setting a precedent in the corporate tech world (and Reddit was a major outlier in that a ton of their users are technical minded and support third party clients, YouTube does not have that kind of userbase and will not get backlash for it), Twitter doing whatever the fuck they're doing, and Google already hellbent on destroying ad blockers, the days of Newpipe, Invidious, and Freetube are numbered. Wouldn't be surprised if they implement Netflix level DRM tomorrow that makes alt clients impossible. I say savour your alt clients while you can guys, you won't be able to soon.

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[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago

I wish that this risk encouraged people to migrate out of YouTube. Specially content creators. PeerTube could get a bit more people.

[-] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

The content creators kinda did already - that's what Nebula is - any place the famous names move to would be one that includes some sort of payment system either on the video site or on Patreon.

[-] andruid@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I wish content creators learned at least one lesson from big tech. If it isn't what butters your bread steal from push that work to community where you can, leverage opensource so you customize where you need to quickly. The fact that Nebula, Floatplane, CuriousityStream, Dropout, etc are all eating engineering cost to attempt to complete against Google, Disney, Netflix, Fox, Etc is wild to me.

Ehh maybe I'm the moron and the special special sauce isn't the content but the slightly different video format and selection screen they are paying some third party to work for them (or building in house).

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