I mean there’s not much anyone can do about it. I tend not to worry - I’ve never been on that part of youtube and stressing about it just means stressing about another thing totally outside of your control.
In an odd way, I kinda hope so simply because it’ll likely bring more attention to Lemmy as a platform. Make no mistake, it’s a shitty business and I hate those content farm channels, but if they think that Lemmy is an actual thing then their audience will, as well.
I see this more as a YouTube problem than a Lemmy problem.
Let me put it this way: reddit started out as a content aggregator. Then LLM’s came along, and Reddit said: hey that’s not fair, we should be getting a piece of the action. The rest is history.
Similar issue with FOSS, and then worrying about the profit companies make off of your work.
Point being, forgetting your initial mission statement and focusing on how you are missing out on the benefits captured by someone else independantly is a trap. If it’s a service usage issue, that can be dealt with with rate limiting and premium support, but we must never compromise the initial mission statement or be blinded by greed.
That being said, Copyleft is a practical solution. Richard Stallman was in many ways right.
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Probably not, unless Reddit closes for good or the channels decide the quality has dipped enough for it to be unprofitable. Only one of these sorta channels I’ve watched was SootHouse, and it wasn’t so much them just reading it, but reacting to it and cracking jokes about it. Just a group of British peeps just being funny.
Probably. It’s a good thing for Lemmy, it’ll drive people to join it.
Yeah that’s actually how I ended up on Reddit back in the day. All the damn buzz feed articles. I just decided to cut out the middle man.
Is that a good thing necessarily?
A problem with these kind of alternative websites (not just the Fediverse but definitely including it) is that their users often have conflicting desires for their website to grow as big as the original while also wanting to maintain a smaller and usually smarter (or at least more techy) userbase, dreading the idea of an eternal September.
Personally I get it, but I think mass adoption of the federated model would ultimately do more for the world. Lemmy being small might be better for talking about combatting the corporations, but Lemmy becoming the norm over Reddit (which I’ll admit I think is unlikely and certainly carries it’s own issues to figure out) would actually weaken the corporations.
If Lemmy ends up with enough interesting content that it supplants Reddit as a source for vapid YouTube channels’ content, I see that as a win for Lemmy.
So you’ve all see videos from the likes of Emkay and Updoot Studios or the like right?
No. Never.
Yep we’re gonna get scraped by shitty accounts on instagram and tik tok too
