[zkmon]

Some channels like these are like collectibles. They are far above over the stature of Youtube itself. Unfortunately we don't have any other place to have these collectibles at, except on a service owned by a private company, who runs it for their business goals.

[globular-toast]

Agreed. I have been personally archiving anything I find high quality for a while now. YouTube is fighting that, though. I hope one day we can get past this and just share this stuff in a distributed way (like BitTorrent).

I still think what we lack is an easy way to do the busking model online. I refuse to pay by watching ads, and I refuse to further monopolies and contribute to garbage like MrBeast by paying for YouTube Premium or whatever. But if I could regularly pay into an account, say £20/month, and choose where to allocate that to each month by doing something low friction like clicking a button that would be perfect. I don't want to automatically pay for everything I see because I don't think it's all worth it. I'm not forced to pay for buskers in public just because I heard them.

I think we have all the pieces we need for this kind of system, namely BitTorrent, Bitcoin and the public domain or CC licences etc. What we really need is polish and the network effect, ie. the last 20%. Unfortunately we all know the last 20% sucks and we only do it if we're forced to do it.

[Lerc]

They could easily exist somewhere else, but they would not be found there

YouTube is the place where people find stuff, so if you want to be found, you have to be there. I posted something on this theme the other day. I would love for there to be a way for people to contribute things like this to the world while being supported so that they can do as much of it as they want.

I feel like YouTube is the worst video sharing platform with the exception of every other one.

I'm not sure of the solution. PAD files for videos? Some standard that lets people find videos no matter which service they are hosted on, letting the hosting and interface be provided by different entities. It would probably take regulatory action before YouTube supported anything like that.

[ge96]

Been finding indie music producers in the dream pop/shoegaze genre, seems better than Spotify recs

These are videos not YT music