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RE: Big YouTube Players Increasingly Promoting Steemit/DTube In Lieu of FB/YT ‘Boots’
A well known Youtuber was how I first heard about Steem, so I really hope more Youtubers let their audience know about this platform.
I think it's inevitable, considering YouTube has totally derailed some lucrative channels.
Btw, I also learned about Steemit via YouTube. I heard someone mention Steemit in one of their vlogs. In turn, I put Steemit in the YT search engine; and, the rest is history.
Best regards.
Peace.
You're spot on. It's not just controversial Youtubers that are getting demonetized. David Pakman who is mostly just a milquetoast liberal was demonetized heavily, but he's not doing bad on Steem at all.
For those having to start over, the decentralized platform is definitely a safeguard to prevent losing years of hard work. Some were able to grab their vault of videos; but, many lost everything.
This should be a wake-up call to new vloggers. Upload every YT vid to Dtube as a backup. Nothing's 100% hack-proof; but, multiple layers helps prevent getting blindsided. For added convenience, it's good to have a private YT channel with every vlog in an unpublished vault.
Peace.
Yeah, but it's still quite unsecure. I mean when you're hosting a file on a primarily centralized server there's always a chance of either a hardware failure or Youtube removing your content because they don't like it. Dtube is very different because it runs off the IPFS network, but it's still best to have backups of your content on a hard drive. internal and external ideally.
The thought of this is haunting...Anyone reading this, and vlogging on YouTube would do well to follow your suggestions:
For sure about the hard drive backups.
Thanks for the explanation!
Peace.
No problem. I've been in the internet content creation scene for years. I've seen so many great Youtubers get screwed over I'm really sick of it.
Thankfully, most are bouncing back after 90-day strikes. And, others are resiliently, starting over with new channels.
I'm reminded of AMTV, who was able to privatize his channel (saving his work); and others, who underestimated the major changes, and lost. They tried to take their projects to FB; but, found themselves with even less power on that platform.
It has definitely been an eye-opener.
Peace.
Yeah that's true they have been bouncing back. I think the primary reason for that is Patreon. So many channels are relying on it for almost their entire income. Hopefully Steem can be on par or for some even surpass what they would get on Patreon, or at the very least supplement their income.