Look up the DeArrow extension. It’ll purge all the shitty thumbnails and clickbait titles.

I really hope it gets integrated in ReVanced or NewPipe.

I believe Linus said they have an external HR contract now. Yvonne was HR when they were much smaller.

I would be sold on that so fast. That’s some Jetsons shit. I would use it all the time

I dunno dude, your average uploader might not be making a ton off AdSense, but the large creators that bring in the majority of users are making bank. The sponsers and Patreons are there to diversify income streams, as Google is notororiously prone to mashing the demonetization button. There are billions of dollars flowing through YouTube, and I don’t think that a decentralized platform running on volunteers and donations is going to be able to compete with that.

Overall I think you’re being unrealistic with the Fediverses place in social media, and overly optimistic about the future of it. I doubt the platform will ever have true mass appeal, which is fine.

Not to mention monetization. A big reason Youtube is what it is is because it pays its creators.

I think this is more of a novelty/proof-of-concept rather than offering any serious use case. It does show a lot of potential for this kind of thing. If the form-factor can be refined into something less stupid looking, there could be more appeal in this tech to the general public than there was in 2013. There seems to be more of a collective shrug towards cameras and microphones in public than there was 10 years ago.