So you’ve all see videos from the likes of Emkay and Updoot Studios or the like right? The ones that shamelessly steal Reddit content and reads it, no attribution or linkback to the original, all while making fuck-you levels of ad revenue?

Are we going to start seeing those channels pivot to Lemmy soon? What’s everyone’s thoughts on that?

I find the idea mostly frustrating because you just know that they’re all rich. All their videos have millions or tens of millions of views and all of them are monetized. In fact they go out of their way to water down edgy posts to keep AdSense happy while diluting and destroying whatever humor the vulgarities in that post might have been intended to bring. Meanwhile, Lemmy devs are mostly unpaid since it’s an open source project, and most instance owners are losing money on server costs in order to host a space for people to enjoy.

Hey, if any YouTube channels see this and you end up making Lemmy content videos, instead of offering lip service on how much you support creators or this platform or anything, maybe take some of your Lemmy content revenue and donate it to the development fund or to the instance where you got the content from, thanks. Then people will be less likely to say you stole it.

    • Marxism-Fennekinism@lemmy.mlOP
      5·
      2 years ago

      I’ve never seen a post they’ve featured and had to go look for it because I was so curious. It’s all the lowest common denominator memes meant to appeal to I assume mostly children and pre-teens.

      • NaN@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        2 years ago

        Not necessarily.

        For example, my mom frustratingly loves to watch those content farm videos of stories about Karens being owned or malicious compliance or even up all night type stuff, and also doesn’t recognize that most of the original stories were made up in the first place. She’ll never use Reddit or Lemmy though, she barely uses the internet which is why she doesn’t understand why they would be fake.

      • angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com
        3·
        2 years ago

        A problem with these kind of alternative websites (not just the Fediverse but definitely including it) is that their users often have conflicting desires for their website to grow as big as the original while also wanting to maintain a smaller and usually smarter (or at least more techy) userbase, dreading the idea of an eternal September.

        Personally I get it, but I think mass adoption of the federated model would ultimately do more for the world. Lemmy being small might be better for talking about combatting the corporations, but Lemmy becoming the norm over Reddit (which I’ll admit I think is unlikely and certainly carries it’s own issues to figure out) would actually weaken the corporations.

    • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.net
      1·
      2 years ago

      Yeah that’s actually how I ended up on Reddit back in the day. All the damn buzz feed articles. I just decided to cut out the middle man.

  • infotainment@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 years ago

    If Lemmy ends up with enough interesting content that it supplants Reddit as a source for vapid YouTube channels’ content, I see that as a win for Lemmy.

  • Ben@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    So you’ve all see videos from the likes of Emkay and Updoot Studios or the like right?

    No. Never.

  • KingOfHaphazard@lemmy.one
    1·
    2 years ago

    In an odd way, I kinda hope so simply because it’ll likely bring more attention to Lemmy as a platform. Make no mistake, it’s a shitty business and I hate those content farm channels, but if they think that Lemmy is an actual thing then their audience will, as well.