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Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp by zozbot234 on Saturday March 15, 2025 @05:27PM (#43375269)
If they shut down yt-dlp for good, a lot of power users and creators would find the YouTube platform useless for themselves and abandon it en masse for its nearest competitor. A tool like yt-dlp is very much required if you want to engage professionally with that kind of community. Even something as trivial as making a well-produced "video reaction" relies on it.

Yes, YT has good monetization, but it still pays peanuts to the average creator. So the competitive threat is very real - superstars alone wouldn't be enough to make for a really compelling platform.

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Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp by aucisson_masque on Saturday March 15, 2025 @06:24PM (#43375541)
> lot of power users and creators would find the YouTube platform useless for themselves and abandon it en masse for its nearest competitor.

Not so sure, since everything is monetized nowadays (YouTuber make video to earn money) and the audience is there, i don't see how they could move anywhere.

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Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp by Konnstann on Saturday March 15, 2025 @06:35PM (#43375597)
YouTube is mostly there as an advertisement tool nowadays, once you get any amount of an audience youtube revenue becomes a small piece of your income compared to things like Patreon, live streaming elsewhere, and even alternative hosting sources like floatplane or Nebula where creators will host exclusive content.
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Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp by dinkumthinkum on Saturday March 15, 2025 @08:34PM (#43376118)
I hear you ... but I think you are massively downplaying how much many creators are earning a living largely off of YouTube monetization. You are right about that for some portion of creators but there are many that are earning most of their income off monetization (both from ads and premium).
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Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp by zozbot234 on Saturday March 15, 2025 @06:27PM (#43375561)
The interesting question is whether YT as a platform pays enough to make this a relevant factor. Which I very much doubt is the case for most creators.
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Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp by mafuy on Saturday March 15, 2025 @06:35PM (#43375596)
Afaik others do not pay more, so an exodus is just wishful thinking detached from reality.
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Re:Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp by kattagarian on Saturday March 15, 2025 @07:06PM (#43375749)
that's wishful thinking. There is basically no relevant competitor to youtube, Google is extremely comfortable in doing whatever they want with it.
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