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Comment by Zopieux

2 months ago

And by "not many" you really mean zero competitors.

(before you ask: Vimeo is getting sold to an enshitification company)

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axiolite  2 months ago

Those "zero" include: Rumble, Odysee, Dailymotion, Twitch, Facebook watch... etc.

And a decent list here: https://ideaexplainers.com/video-sites-like-youtube/

  • pjc50  2 months ago

    Twitch does live streaming but recently severely limited the extent of free hosting for archived content.

    Not actually heard of the first two, what's their USP?

  • treyd  2 months ago

    Rumble and Odysee and populated with crazy ragebaiting rightwingers, conspiracy theorists, and pseudo-libertarians.

    Twitch has the issues the other commenter described, and both Twitch and Facebook are owned by billionaires who are actively collaborating with the current authoritarian regime. Facebook in particular is a risk space for actually exercising free speech and giving coherent critiques of authority.

    Dailymotion is... maybe okay? As a company it seems like it's on life support. There's a "missing middle" between the corporate highly produced content that's distributed across all platforms and being a long tail dumping ground. I did find things like university lectures there, but there isn't creators actually trying to produce content for Dailymotion like there is on YouTube.

    • axiolite  2 months ago

      > Rumble and Odysee and populated with crazy ragebaiting rightwingers, conspiracy theorists, and pseudo-libertarians.

      So, just like Youtube, then?

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