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It’s not petty, it’s marketing 101. The name has absolutely nothing to do with anything. YouTube isn’t a terrible name. It’s both relevant and personal. “You” ... the person watching ... and “Tube” ... which is pretty self-explanatory. Floatplane sounds like they went online and used a random business name generator. It’s awful.That seems rather petty. YouTube is a terrible name but I bet you still use it.
I literally said the connection. Hundreds of changes good demonetized or deleted as fallout from YouTube trying to punish someone for saying something they didn't like but didn't break YouTube rules. You don't have to go look up what happened, but then don't complain you don't know what's going on.
And if you don't want to pay to watch Linus, don't. I bet he doesn't care.
Linus Shill Tips, where would I be without Linus telling me what to buy
It’s not petty, it’s marketing 101. The name has absolutely nothing to do with anything. YouTube isn’t a terrible name. It’s both relevant and personal. “You” ... the person watching ... and “Tube” ... which is pretty self-explanatory. Floatplane sounds like they went online and used a random business name generator. It’s awful.
And it would have been a relevant name for that as well.unless you happen to know what "youtube" was actually suppose to represent and it has nothing to do with what "youtube" is now, lol.. youtube was suppose to be a dating video site which failed miserably. P
I dunno why Linus is so popular, remember when he was too lazy to empty an aio and dumped coolant all over his mobo/cpu while his assistant facepalmed?
LTT is not a channel making political statements
So many people completely missing the point. Stop thinking YouTube replacement. Start thinking patreon with benefits.
I don’t mind giving Google Borg some $ given the enormous infrastructure they’ve deployed that in turn gives me access to so much content.
Yeah honestly the name makes no sense and I don't see this surviving more than a couple of years as much as I want competition.
Linus is not someone I watch, but good on him if he can pull this off.
Linus Shill Tips, where would I be without Linus telling me what to buy
Eh ... my cousin has almost a million subscribers and she's pretty pissed off about the YouTube situation as well. I'll show her this. If it works for her I'll happily support it, despite the odd name.The site's been up for months already with Linus and Bitwit, and they added about 3 more creators a month or so back.
Is this thread seriously wanting me to pay money to watch that dude?
Yeah I don't know what thread people are looking at.No, it's not.
It's getting really hard to find a meaningful name for new projects these days. Do you think Kubernetes or Node are better?
Again, this isn't a YT competitor as such, so the bar for success is much lower.
The fact that their marketing this directly to Youtube content creators puts this in Youtube competitor territory.
Aside from "supporting the creator directly" you also get videos a week early.there is NO benefit for the viewer
I'm not 100% sure I understand their business model but as soon as they said $5 per channel PER CREATOR you want to follow ... that was a big no for me (as a viewer/consumer).
It is TRUE Floatplane is a benefit for the video creators but there is NO benefit for the viewer/customer (unless the creator is keeping something exclusive to Floatplane / behind a paywall). If you don't like ads - just pay for YouTube premium. Boom - no ads. And that applies to ALL of your YT subbed channels = flat rate. Not $5/per creator. <- this is what I do.
Sure I understand YouTube / Google likes to eff around with how they calculate / pay out for ad views or clicks or edit / limit content (maybe for topic controversy or cursing or nudity or age or ...) but they are also subsidizing all the costs and fees related to hosting and marketing a creator's content. I've found a bunch of new creators to watch and follow as a result of random late night youtube clicking / channel surfing that I wouldn't have otherwise found.
The main thing about Youtube-ing which I think some creators are missing is that its best function is as a springboard to other things - selling merch, doing sponsored ads, instagram, advising/consulting, other channel related businesses (i.e. auto channels that do auto things IRL), etc. People who are actually relying on YouTube ad revenue paychecks as the primary source of income without diversifying their revenue streams are just asking for trouble.
FP members could give subscribers rewards as well, things like early videos
Not quite; they are marketing to a very specific subset of YT content creators, for very specific reasons. The fact that many of those providers will continue to put content up on YT, including LTT. This kind of generalized thinking (any video = youtube competitor) would pit the new Disney channel against YT, which simply isn't a useful way to look at the two.The fact that their marketing this directly to Youtube content creators puts this in Youtube competitor territory.
They explicitly are trying to separate the murk (ie, the water) from things that float above it.Sure they may not be able to keep up with Youtubes bulk content (which is generally trash and memes) but they should definitely go with a name that captures the spirit.
It's literally the *exact* same length and difficulty as YT. And You tube is neither about "you" (most people aren't making their own content) or "tubes" (no one is using a CRT to watch Youtube).Floatplane just sounds long and annoying to say.
https://www.float.com/ is already taken.They could shorten it to just Float or Plane and it would do better granted those are some pretty generic terms to copyright but just making an example.
Leaves me even more suspicious.
Aside from "supporting the creator directly" you also get videos a week early.
You may sub dozens of different YT channels now, but you probably aren't supporting all of them directly via Patreon or whatever, are you? There's people out there who have like 5 different streaming services, but are only paying for one or two a month, and they rotate every so often. This could work the same way.
And if it doesn't work for you, then just don't use it. That's cool. But it's not a stupid idea just because it you don't like it.
i suspect people with millions of subs on YT don't actually get money directly from their viewers anyway. sure some small subset probably does but I bet most don't and most would not pay a dime to have to watch their content. this is dilemma of services like this. I subs to a lot of people on YT. they make money off my views but if I had to pay to watch their stuff, no matter how good it is, I would stop watching them and find someone else. Pretty sure the majority of others are like this. I dont think pewdiepie would be like he is if people had to pony up 5 bucks a month to watch him.
Now if Floatplane was $5 bucks a month and watch anyone you want...that would change things as its more like a streaming media service then.
Any particular reason you'd take peertube over Bitchute?
they make money off my views but if I had to pay to watch their stuff, no matter how good it is, I would stop watching them and find someone else.