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Re:Watch Out Google, YouTubers Are Unionizing by Smithalicious on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @07:34PM (#20701112)
People just go to where the audience is. I've considered both starting a blog and starting a YouTube channel, and realized that if I actually want people to see my content then only YouTube makes sense. After all, I don't even follow any blogs myself!

Maybe one day there will be a platform that makes following blogs as convenient as following youtubers

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Re:Watch Out Google, YouTubers Are Unionizing by Mediterraneo10 on Thursday August 15, 2019 @07:02AM (#20704113)
> Maybe one day there will be a platform that makes following blogs as convenient as following youtubers

There was such a platform: the RSS ecosystem. Unfortunately, Google managed to attract something like 80% of the market to its offering, Google Reader, and then it shut Google Reader down, which basically killed off RSS. RSS does remain today, but it is a shadow of what it once was.

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