They are, they’re trying, they’re pushing other platforms constantly. Kurzgesagt already does, heavily.

But are users switching? Nope.

They hardly even know they exist.

Sometimes I even see such a comment on YouTube, a user questioning YouTube; yet they didn’t even watch the video long enough to see the creator promoting an alternative platform.

They’ve already scrolled to the next video, algorithmically fed to them.

YouTube has an iron grip on YT users, and they know it. Even if ALL creators band together, IMO there’s basically nothing the creators can do.

Even if ALL creators band together, IMO there’s basically nothing the creators can do.

Accurate. Even if everyone started uploading to a different platform tomorrow, the catalog of videos already on YT is enough to sustain them for a while

The only way to get users to switch if YouTube and alphabet goes bankrupt and goes out of business for good and if YouTube goes offline forever

they’re pushing other platforms constantly. Kurzgesagt already does, heavily.

Do they? They used to be part-owners of Nebula but sold shares and bounced. What platform do they push now?

Oh maybe this is right. I don’t watch regularly, just remember Nebula (or something) in several of their videos.

They have directly addressed the enshittification of platforms, too.

What happened to nebula?

Nothing bad, Nebula is awesome. Kurzgesagt and CGP Grey disagreed with the direction the rest of the leadership wanted to go with it and they jumped ship. Since then it has exploded in popularity.

Kurzgesagt already does, heavily.

where are they available besides youtube? on their website they only link to youtube, written social media, and instagram

kurzgesagt.org/what-we-do

I was mistaken, I think. Apparently they used to be involved with Nebula, but that’s no longer the case.

Yeah, they left, along with CGP Grey, a very long time ago. The TL;DR of why is: as early members of Standard, they thought that they and the other early members should be entitled to take a larger share of the income from Nebula than newer creators. Everyone else thought it should be shared more equitably. Essentially, Kurzgesagt and Grey wanted to be able to leech off of the work of others, instead of operate in a worker-owned business where everyone is paid according to the value they bring in.

They do. Ironically a lot of users criticise particular group of people of users being in the grip of sky etc.

I know the word addiction isn’t quite right but YT is still a social media.

YouTube has an effective monopoly on small scale video like this. Creators try to use other platforms be the audience just isn’t there.

Distributing video is also considerably harder compared with text or images, so it’s harder to for grassroots platforms to start up.

I bailed on YouTube a few years ago. I had a video with a very clearly public domain piece of music (both the song and the performance) in it, which I didn’t monetize just because I hate ads and the channel wasn’t very popular anyway. Some bot flagged the public domain song for copyright and YouTube not only gave me a copyright strike but also added paid ads into my video without my consent so they could send the ad money to whoever it was that flagged it.

I didn’t even bother to contest that one, I just deleted my entire channel and sent them a very angry message telling them to go fuck themselves lol.

I will never use them again because of that, and I’m so glad I got out before AI became a thing. Fuck YouTube.