Youtube is too big a beast to beat normally. I am not surprised if it was also getting subsidized just so they can build their position. I am also wondering how many people will be jumping into the speak network and whether or not it will be able to surpass Youtube's dominance.
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Even I use YouTube (mostly to watch videos). But I have not even tried the speak network. Although I tried DTube in the past. People say that DTube deletes videos over a certain period of time. I did not see this on YouTube. I still have all of my uploaded videos, even the earliest ones and the first one (uploaded 13 years ago in 2008), and even the ones I put to private or to unlisted.
What I like in YouTube is the fact that it simply works for ordinary people for average things. What I do not like about it is the censorship on the platform. For example some videos being banned in certain countries, or even worldwide.
Yea I think there will always be a demand for Youtube because the business model is different. Any video uploaded can earn forever so some of those influencers would be hard to convince.
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And I do not even earn from most of my videos in most cases (I rarely have viewers). I just store those videos. YouTube is probably the best solution for free long term video storing.
It is but storage costs are insane high. I feel like Youtube keeps it around since they want the data so it doesn't matter as much to them but any other alternatives will definitely have issues.
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On a long enough time line Hive beats everything out there. No one who spends enough time here to see what's happening goes back.