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immibis2yesterday at 7:02 PM1 replyview on HN

It's interesting to think about what is actually so good about YouTube. Is it being able to go to the homepage and see a bunch of stuff to click on? Nebula has that.

I signed up to Nebula to support alternative platforms, yet I still click on YouTube all the time and not Nebula. Why is that? I'm not sure.


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WarmWashyesterday at 7:41 PM

Because yt pays creators more than the others, both in absolute (total dollars) and relative (revenue share) terms.

As long people are "sticking it to the man" with ad-block, youtube gets to keep it's monopoly. They have literately turned people's greed back against themselves, since it ensures starvation of competitors. And yt doesn't have anything to do with it, hence not monopolistic.

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