RE: YouTube vs. Dtube - Why Steem Has a Hard Time Attracting and Retaining Quality Content Creators
This is great @coruscate! This really dives into the details and I think will spur a lot of thought and better understanding on how to address these issues. Candidly, I feel as if some of the earliest adopters of steem\dtube have this “has to be quality” legacy thought process on all content, which actually if you think about it is literally the opposite of what mass adoption is.
What I mean is, 99% of content on succesfull social media platforms would not fall under this category. Do we want to have a niche high quality platform that shrivels up and dies, or a large platform with all the awesome benefits of steem that also has mostly low quality posts?
I know your video is about youtube vs dtube but I bring this up as broaching a larger issue that I think exists on the platform.
BTW as you know I LOVE your content (and you!) and so i am in no way taking a shot at high quality content, just pointing out that not everyone is going to pump that out and I think the old guard of steem\steemit needs to adapt themselves and that way of thinking if we are really to be succesful together in bringing in the masses.
As an example I’ve actually seen highly influential and well known content creators be chased away from this platform because they dared repost their own content here.
I could be wrong ( wonder where I got that from? ;) ) about this.. what do you think?
Really? I don't really know about the history, but I know that there are a couple of YouTubers who repost their YouTube videos to Dtube and quite consistently get the DTube upvote... and because they're so consistent (because the YouTube algorithm demands it) , they often get that upvote more than people who create only for DTube.
I know you weren't asking me, but in my experience, DTube just doesn't lend itself to quality videos at all. If you create an amazing video for YouTube, it will be there forever and you can potentially earn from it forever. Lots of YouTubers may not earn much from a single video, but their whole collection earns them good money overall. DTube just doesn't have the content consumers, and so you can create a really great video, and if no one sees it or votes on in the first couple of hours, it kinda feels like you've wasted your time. With YouTube, there's always that hope that an older video still might go well.
I think this is why we'll never see the "How To" videos on DTube that is an absolutely huge part of YouTube.
Good points! Yeah I have specific examples but I really don’t want to name names or cause any drama. And maybe the culture finally is changing, I just know that back in the old days there was this obsession with quality.... its totally possible im just a cranky old man yelling for kids to get off his lawn though
Haha, that's exactly why we get along so well... we're both just old dudes yelling at the kids.
I honestly haven't seen an obsession with quality in the past couple of months I've been active... but that doesn't mean that's not happening now, just means I'm running in different circles.
You can still run? I’m way too old for that nonsense
Old videos (reposts) shouldn't be getting upvoted, can you pinpoint me the videos in question ?
Sorry Heimindanger, I didn't say old videos. What I meant is the users that create their videos for a YouTube audience (usually say things like "Like and Subscribe buttons, hit that Bell button for notifications, etc"), but also upload that same video to DTube that same day.
I haven't noticed people uploading old backlogged YouTube videos.