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Comment by altairiumblue | Hacker News Reader

- Why would content creators choose to use this service over youtube or twitch?

- And why would users choose it over the other platforms?

- And if they did, how would the experience be different for each party?

Content creators would benefit from lbry if they want to share files other than videos (, don't want to worry about being deplatformed, or want full control of their data.

Users may want to use it if they want to support their favorite creators without going through someone else. If they choose to support their favorite creators with micropayments or subscriptions, no one gets to take a cut off the top.

Ideally, it would allow creators to earn more money, and allow users to give more support to their favorite creators.

Creators who create PG13 content or R content are on a precipitous edge on YouTube, and all the major platforms, as those platforms/companies are beholden to the ad buyers.

Users who want to get their favorite PG13/R content should be able to without worrying about a channel being shut down - a minority use case for the time, but one that is growing.

As for the use case differentiator, besides what was described above, the ideal end goal is that the things people enjoy about platforms will be in place and function, without the controlling middlemen changing the rules on everyone all the time.

Producers would use this service over others to ensure that the content that they sell is not tampered with, not censored, not edited, not removed by someone else. They would use this service to be sure that their content got to the consumer in its pure form.

Consumers would use it for the same purpose: they use it to ensure that the content they are viewing is exactly what the producer intended. Consumers would also use the service to acquire content that has been wrongly-suppressed elsewhere.

What kind of content creators do you imagine needing this?

Real talk, nobody at YouTube is editing your uploaded videos.

Since you need to own a website to publish, can't you just put a bittorrent magnet link on there? Or IPFS or other flavor-of-the-month.

I'm struggling to imagine your blockchain not being largely composed of pirated movies, child porn, and Nazis. Everyone else is served well-enough by easier alternatives.

Users get censored and demonetized all the time. Recently they also started messing (as a small test) with changing the thumbnails that users chose after they published a video.

It is not viable to create a business on YouTube. In one day, it could be gone.

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