• Hyperreality
    link
    fedilink
    71 year ago

    Quasi-monopoly.

    There are alternatives. Daily motion is still quite big, for example.

    • BlinkerFluid
      link
      fedilink
      English
      301 year ago

      Get real, dude. YouTube is all about mass broadcasting to the widest audience available, not reliable playback and a lack of advertisement, not that Dailymotion has either.

    • @Knusper@feddit.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      131 year ago

      YouTube has lots of competitors in the field of video content: Netflix et al, Twitch, TikTok, DailyMotion, Vimeo, PeerTube etc.

      But they have a monopoly on specific content. If you search for a tutorial on how to take apart your specific toaster model, you’ll probably only find that on YouTube. Or if you’ve watched a specific video creator for years and they only upload to YouTube. Or even if your colleague sends you a link to some dumb YouTube video, then you’re not going to ask them for the title, so you can throw it into SepiaSearch.

      If you’re part of a younger generation, it’s just not really an option to not use YouTube…