I didn't even know there was a competition for having a bigger audience.
this post was submitted on 02 May 2025
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Third-party or self hosted GitLab FTW.
Youtube is kind of hard to replace, though. There's attempts but I'm skeptical they'll go far.
Not with that attitude they won't!
How many YouTube competitors have risen up and died since it first started? PeerTube is fine but there's no AdSense so the really big an medium sized ones won't move over. There aren't enough viewers for sponsorships to be worth while so it's purely passion that will drive people to upload onto it, which is great but it basically limits the uploads to people who are techy enough or care enough about decentralization to go out of their way to not get payed.
What about just the bandwidth and storage requirements? Any news on that?
Both suck
147 people follow me. I have no idea why. I'm boring.
1,873 contributions in the last year
Maybe it’s because you’re fucking sexy
I require thy github username
Same as lemmy username
#holy shit that's you?
I follow two people. I have no idea why I did that either.
I have 3 followers, one is a maintainer of Postgres and I’ll tell literally anyone who fucking listens
Take the win.
I mostly just use GitHub for work. I don't think the social media bits matter.
Except stars. I've been told investors use stars as a proxy for interest lately. I see how bots these make a lot of sense.
All this bots stuff reminds me of an off hand part of Anathem. They had this historical arms race of garbage spread on their internet. There's these monk folks who have been fighting it for generations. I thought it was sill years ago. Feels sane now.
Have a follow
Why would anyone ever compare those platforms?
As a joke. That's kinda why we're here.
I'M SERIOUS AS A HEART ATTACK PAL
How could you!
Internet points.
Getting Embraced and Extended must feel nice.
I feel like YouTube one can lead into another. Because it's hard to get people to follow you in GitHub. But having another platform where you can advertise your programs means a lot. Even if you write something useful people are not going to discover you without something else doing the outreach.
Theres been a LOT of bots on github lately. They mass follow each other. Its pretty easy to see them as they will have 1k+ followers and follow just as many. Theres growing scams and acounts where you can buy GH accounts online that are "primed" with followers so your account looks good.