So you’ve all see videos from the likes of Emkay and Updoot Studios or the like right? The ones that shamelessly steal Reddit content and reads it, no attribution or linkback to the original, all while making fuck-you levels of ad revenue?
Are we going to start seeing those channels pivot to Lemmy soon? What’s everyone’s thoughts on that?
I find the idea mostly frustrating because you just know that they’re all rich. All their videos have millions or tens of millions of views and all of them are monetized. In fact they go out of their way to water down edgy posts to keep AdSense happy while diluting and destroying whatever humor the vulgarities in that post might have been intended to bring. Meanwhile, Lemmy devs are mostly unpaid since it’s an open source project, and most instance owners are losing money on server costs in order to host a space for people to enjoy.
Hey, if any YouTube channels see this and you end up making Lemmy content videos, instead of offering lip service on how much you support creators or this platform or anything, maybe take some of your Lemmy content revenue and donate it to the development fund or to the instance where you got the content from, thanks. Then people will be less likely to say you stole it.
If Lemmy ends up with enough interesting content that it supplants Reddit as a source for vapid YouTube channels’ content, I see that as a win for Lemmy.
In an odd way, I kinda hope so simply because it’ll likely bring more attention to Lemmy as a platform. Make no mistake, it’s a shitty business and I hate those content farm channels, but if they think that Lemmy is an actual thing then their audience will, as well.
I mean there’s not much anyone can do about it. I tend not to worry - I’ve never been on that part of youtube and stressing about it just means stressing about another thing totally outside of your control.
Probably not, unless Reddit closes for good or the channels decide the quality has dipped enough for it to be unprofitable. Only one of these sorta channels I’ve watched was SootHouse, and it wasn’t so much them just reading it, but reacting to it and cracking jokes about it. Just a group of British peeps just being funny.
Probably. It’s a good thing for Lemmy, it’ll drive people to join it.
Is that a good thing necessarily?
A problem with these kind of alternative websites (not just the Fediverse but definitely including it) is that their users often have conflicting desires for their website to grow as big as the original while also wanting to maintain a smaller and usually smarter (or at least more techy) userbase, dreading the idea of an eternal September.
Personally I get it, but I think mass adoption of the federated model would ultimately do more for the world. Lemmy being small might be better for talking about combatting the corporations, but Lemmy becoming the norm over Reddit (which I’ll admit I think is unlikely and certainly carries it’s own issues to figure out) would actually weaken the corporations.
Yeah that’s actually how I ended up on Reddit back in the day. All the damn buzz feed articles. I just decided to cut out the middle man.
So you’ve all see videos from the likes of Emkay and Updoot Studios or the like right?
No. Never.
Yep we’re gonna get scraped by shitty accounts on instagram and tik tok too
I see this more as a YouTube problem than a Lemmy problem.
Let me put it this way: reddit started out as a content aggregator. Then LLM’s came along, and Reddit said: hey that’s not fair, we should be getting a piece of the action. The rest is history.
Similar issue with FOSS, and then worrying about the profit companies make off of your work.
Point being, forgetting your initial mission statement and focusing on how you are missing out on the benefits captured by someone else independantly is a trap. If it’s a service usage issue, that can be dealt with with rate limiting and premium support, but we must never compromise the initial mission statement or be blinded by greed.
That being said, Copyleft is a practical solution. Richard Stallman was in many ways right.
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