• lud@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    YouTube is really hard to replace without the money of a multi billion company.

    Video is hard and attracting creators is even harder.

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      10 months ago

      So is a good search engine. As much as I love DuckDuckGo and daily drive it the results are much worse than google’s

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        10 months ago

        No, you can switch to a different search engine right now and the results will be perfectly fine. I use DDG exclusively.

        What video platform can you switch to that has even remotely close to the amount of content as YouTube? (Pornhub doesn’t count)

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            10 months ago

            It’s also different as there only a few privileged channels get to keep their content forever. A lot of channels can only keep it for 2 weeks or 2 months based on their status, and a lot of creators upload their content to youtube to keep it for longer

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        10 months ago

        The only benefit I get from google over ecosia or duckduckgo is I can’t call a company or view their menu immediately from the search page after looking them up.

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            10 months ago

            Hopefully the alternatives catch on to that and improve outside of the English speaking world. Using Brave has been a dream for me, the results are almost always better than Google.

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              10 months ago

              i personally refrain from brave, because A, those whole crypto shennenigans and what not and second, the browser is chromium based and i use firefox and i haven’t bothered to put brave search yet