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[–]SierraKiloBravo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yep, the site still needs a lot of work to become a viable contender against YT. Like Dave said in that vid, there are only two people running BitCute - I wasn't aware of that!

Kinda reminds me of SaidIt; slowly growing, little changes and improvements here and there, on its way to great things

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

One other thing I'd like to see, and not exclusively on BitChute...

AdSense dominates online advertising. There are many smaller competitors. I'd like to see an ethical and freedom embracing alternative ad-service emerge with relevant well targeted ads.

Well targeted means not advertising feminine products to middle aged men, etc. Better still, advertising to niche audiences for maximum effect. For example, a Goth fashion brand would be wasting advertising to general audiences - yet YouTube insists on keeping it general (for maximum centralized power).

[–]SierraKiloBravo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Agree. There is something inherently borked with it, yes.

I like how on BitChute there is a tip button and channels can nominate one or more ways that viewers can throw them a dollar if they enjoyed something. I think the value-for-value model is good.

Would be good if YT did something like that.

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes. For sure.

One and a half more thing/s occurred to me...

Another way BitChute could share the load, in addition to actually fixing their WebTorrent, would be embracing IPFS to confirm valid files that would not necessarily need to be shared via WebTorrent. The other half is that this is just simply more decentralization - and if BitChute were to embrace decentralization I'm quite sure it would lighten their load and get more support, both financially and with the code - if they were to lead the way. Honestly I don't understand any new platforms portending to be free that don't embrace decentralization to the max. (Open source is another important matter altogether entangled in "intellectual property".)