RE: Steemit is NOT YouTube [Thank Goodness!]
As a fellow YouTuber I hear where you are coming from. I've been here a couple of weeks and really enjoy this site. It's refreshing to meet so many people with a common goal.
I will still make videos because I actually really enjoy the whole process. Whether they get posted here or anywhere is kind of unimportant to me, as long as they are out there. I was talking about making an app to host them here just yesterday?
I never saw YouTube as a money making venture at all but as a repository of my thoughts and ideas on video.
The way things are going. The block chain is the way forward simply because it is more likely to survive the coming disruption that steemit is bringing.
Very thoughtful and honest post. Resteemed and all that.
Can't say the same for YouTube. Sadly the writing is on the wall. Excuse the pun!
Hey @molometer, thanks for the resteeming! I totally agree with you on video posting on youtube as a personal log, etc. The technology is great for that. I still use them to host my videos. :-) This is a very busy time of year for us with gardening harvests and our preparing for our sheep (coming Saturday), so I find that I don't have as much time to devote to my video editing right now. Getting some good photos and keeping going is what is working best for me. That aside, the direction of YouTube is nearly 180 degrees from what I want, and only seeming worse with their latest update. Thanks again!
Totally agree with you @greenacrehome on the direction YouTube is taking at the moment.
Trying to make YouTube more like TV is not what the audience or creators want.
The public at large have no idea of the amount of work that goes into making videos and they really couldn't care less, which is fine but as we both know. Time is a precious commodity that we have very little of. We must spend it wisely.
Trying to take good photos and plugging away works for me too.
Did you see their new "Report" section on each video now? It's an easy way to report videos for whatever reason. I see it as a further attack on anything non-mainstream on YouTube. Here's a snipet of the options you have to report on.. seems to just beckon anything.
Looks like the thought police are firmly in charge over there. Sad state if affairs. Sooner we get that steemit video app done the better.