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I think you can replace all social media with a decentralized version, except YouTube. Reason is cost and monetization.
- Even if YouTube is questionable on privacy-YouTube have more of a product unlike social media where you are the product
  
  with youtube, youre still the product, but at least you get something from it
  
  As well as content creators
  
  I feel like it's still crazy that YouTube share their ad revenue with their content creators. Granted it's not much but not even tiktok, Instagram nor twitch does that.
  
  less would upload otherwise
- Yep people don't realize the cost of running YouTube, and why all the creators are there.
  
  Cause they share that cost, and have the most eyeballs. Far and away.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube
  
  They explicitly say in their description they're not a replacement for YouTube.
  
  Which description? That Wikipedia article says "The aim is to provide an alternative to centralized platforms such as YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion."
  
  The difference to YouTube is that it's not intended to create a huge platform centralizing videos from the whole world on a single server farm (which is horribly expensive).
  From their website. It's a very different system, and also not funded by advertisers, which means someone else has to pay the bills.
  
  Is PeerTube's purpose to replace YouTube?
  We can answer with certainty: no!
  The ambition remains to be a free and decentralized alternative: the goal of an alternative is not to replace, but to propose something else, with different values, in parallel to what already exists.
  They're saying they're not a "replacement" because it's a decentralized alternative to something centralized. Not because it can't serve the same needs for technical or economic reasons.
- It's like replacing Amazon for online shopping. Even a coalition of every competitor couldn't touch YouTube.
  
  You don't need to replace Amazon in it's entirety. You just need to shop from different places selling only a particular category (clothes, books, computer hardware, pet supplies etc) or straight from brand's shop. At least that's what I've been doing. Also haven't renewed my prime subscription for last 2 years.
  
  All the power to those that like Amazon but I have never bought anything from Amazon and never will. I always look up the cheapest option (that is trustworthy) which Amazon never is. Plus I don't like their business model just like I don't like media mark (they killed of many stores by selling for huge losses for years). we want competition so we want as many stores as possible, we also want experts, so I rather go to a store that sells x type of products not x, y, z and also b like Amazon do.
  Also big stores like Amazon only makes sense in the physical form, jumping between stores online isn't physical draining.
  
  It's probably easier to replace Amazon than YouTube. Free streaming services don't make money, YouTube loses money, Twitch loses money, Kick loses money, the Microsoft one before it died was losing money. If it's free to watch it loses money, and these are companies that do a ton of work to try and make it not lose money, and it just doesn't work.
- Unfortunately, but we can still try. Any competition in that space is good.

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