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Re:Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonli... by jtriangle on Saturday May 01, 2021 @10:01PM (#27011750)
Many, many creators who's content is not youtube friendly are hosting their videos off platform (no shortage of options there) and only posting previews on youtube to direct their subscribers and anyone who happens upon their videos to an external site.

Google makes this moderately difficult of course, but it seems to be a viable option when coupled with patreon (where you usually get more content/early access/more creator engagement) or some other external subscription where the same is offered.

To answer your question succinctly, no, you don't want "other youtube" you want something sufficiently different to avoid youtube's pitfalls.

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Re:Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonli... by johnnyanmac on Sunday May 02, 2021 @05:22PM (#27019157)
>To answer your question succinctly, no, you don't want "other youtube" you want something sufficiently different to avoid youtube's pitfalls.

I argue "other youtube would suffice". We see this with Youtube streaming needing to actually compete due to Twitch existing, and vice versa. There's still the likely issue that they both fall into legal troll pitfalls, but I argue that they will avoid more of them in an attempt to compete for a better service.

With video hosting, Youtube doesn't need to compete.

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Re:Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonli... by robbrown451 on Sunday May 02, 2021 @05:52PM (#27019398)
I think you are referring to porn. Yes, there are places people can post porn and get views and monetize them.

I don't think that helps piano teachers and the like.

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