Is that why there’s like 27 languages that are based on the same jvm?

Maybe that is the sign, that he uses normal spelling.

Kinda cringe

Do tell. Bitte.

I’m not saying the YouTube tos are sacred, I am just saying that YouTube premium is good value for money and the right solution for a platform that is sustainable and profitable for creators (and Google). If they don’t have a way of me saving a video that I want to archive myself, I will find another way of downloading it. If yt-dlp gets blocked I’ll use OBS. But it’s not practical for everyday use, and not on the potpourri of devices we use in the family.

I’ll repeat, even if YouTube was perfect (which is impossible, no platform is) it would make sense to diversify. Streaming, merch, donations, whatever. You never know what can happen tomorrow. Since YouTube is created an operated by humans, they fuck up, so much more reason. Hard not to fuck up from time to time given their scale and complexity. Could they do a better job? Certainly, but as a i said, they are 95% there.

And I don’t see a reason why a creator that I watch 20 minutes a month shouldn’t get their fair share of the payment, why would I limit myself to the top 5? Or one that I watch 10 minutes once in my life, but solves a problem or a question that I had a that moment.

All for the price of half a trip to the movies, maybe one third. It’s a no brainer to me.

PEBKAC

Yes, Youtube makes mistakes, has bugs and the moderation is not perfect. But it gets you 95% there, which would take years and literal millions to do yourself. The only premium feature I care about is the ads. For downloading things long term I use yt-dlp.

Of course creators want to diversify, even if YouTube was perfect they don’t want to be dependent on one revenue stream.

About payments: Square charges 30c fixed fee per payment (+%). PayPal charges 49c. Stripe 30c. Ayden 37c. Klarna 30c. Please enlighten me how flat fees are not a thing.

Google provides tooling, hosting, bandwidth, processing, security, metrics, payment processing, support, filtering, legal protection, captioning, apps for every platform imaginable, etc. Hardly a parasitic intermediary. Plus donating to 50+ creators would be more money in payment fees alone than what I pay for YouTube.

Machste nix.

Adblockers are a pain in the ass for many reasons. Small websites can’t realistically fund themselves with other sources, big players like newspapers end up putting paywalls limit access to quality journalism or selling themselves to billionaires who can run them at a loss in exchange of influence on the reporting. You end up with billionaires controlling all media and no way for small shops to compete with them.

YouTube premium: YouTube ads are fucking annoying, adblocking on TVs is unreliable at best, impossible at worst, I want to support the people who create the content I enjoy and the price for a whole family, for a whole month… is one third of the price of going to the movies once.

I have been labeled a troll many a time, for:

• arguing against adblockers
• arguing for YouTube premium
• saying the USSR killed a bunch of people (and many other historical facts)
• saying not voting for Kamala carries responsibility for what trump does
• saying that the average voter prefers moderate democrats
• condemning treatment of Uygurs

But that’s just because my momma so fat that… wait…

I know, but some people over here seem to be afraid of any dissent.

There’s not sufficient echo in my chamber!

That’s what you get for sticking your neck for a cause…

Because those are more popular. More people are interested in McDonald’s than in Lahmacun.

Machste nix

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Convenience

And as the Bible says, God is stupid and if you change one letter he doesn’t know that you are talking about sex. (Matthew 69:420)