YouTube, and one technically exists in the form of PeerTube, with PlasmaTube being a good client for PeerTube.
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2024
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YouTube really isn’t anything without the content and I’m not sure how open source will solve that.
In the case of PeerTube, not worrying about Google age-gating or straight-up yanking your content if you tick them off is a good start, basically, you'd actually own your content posting on PeerTube instead of YT.
That is a good thing but at the end of the day that makes someone money how? The platform has to work for everyone even the professional creators.
YT's ad revenue only pays out fractions of a penny, if you want to make money on content creation, you're better off doing that through crowdfunding eg. with BuyMeACoffee, and that revenue stream is platform-agnostic.
Also, PeerTube's design basically allowing you to own your content can work out well for hobbyists which already have some other income source as well, better than being at the mercy of Google.
It’s a chicken or the egg situation. However you make your money you need eyeballs and they’re currently not on PeerTube. Millions of people visit YouTube everyday. That’s a lot of chances for discovery. It’s a very small percentage of people willing to limit their exposure for the things you mentioned and without loads of content it’s hard to grow and truly be an alternative to YouTube.
Im late to the party I know but, google wallet/gpay
Waze
I'm probably stating the obvious but we'll never have anything like Waze without a lot of people consenting to share their location. The only reason Google can pull it off is because they take it from all Android phones and cars without asking. They're in a unique position to do so and this predatory approach is unlikely to be replicated in general, let alone by a FOSS project — which tends to come with certain moral values.
Keep in mind that but only do you need data, you need it to approach a certain threshold to be statistically reliable. Otherwise you get "exploits" like when those people were driving slowly up and down their street to dupe Waze into not recommending it to commuters.
And we're not even getting to the part where some people may straight out push fake locations.
Krita & OpenToonz handle just about everything I need as an animator/artist, but I'm worried about OpenToonz continued development. I worry that there aren't enough people working on it.
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