Google is such a bully, I want china to succeed.
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2026
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Unless I can make A whole channel dedicated to 1989 Massacre Im not interested.
Won't last. Youtube offers financial incentives and originally when Youtube got big it had lax as fuck censorship which is what gained it's initial popularity. Unless China is going to be entirely lax in the same way, there is no incentive for people to move over.
I've been using a VPN to watch stuff there for years
Meet the new boss
Worst then the old boss
YouTube's censorship has become worse than cable TV's (in the US). I have a feeling that BiliBili will only further normalize the aggressive censorship, like TikTok did.
They're going to need to drastically change how the platform looks if they want to succeed. In typical Chinese app fashion the UI is incredibly bloated and overwhelming, not what a Western audience wants at all. They also won't be able to match YouTube's CPM so creators won't bother switching either.
Yes but we shouldn't discourage competition because at the end of the day monopolies are bad.
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You know, I don't know if that's what "a Western audience" wants. I know that Youtube has made its service steadily worse over time, and also much more resource intensive. Checking Firefox's Process Manager, it currently lists four Youtube tabs loaded in memory that total up to 1.4GB. And I know a lot of that isn't the video: when I load a new Youtube tab, it shows the "placeholder" content, gray lines where text will go, for several seconds before anything really displays.
I mean, Bilibili sucks too? I get popups before videos I watch with anime characters, whee. There's also the whole currently-is-in-Chinese thing, kind of a drawback for an English-speaker, But it does seem to load a bit faster.
thats good news youtube was mainstream so looong that it becomes to eat itself slowly seeing some competitions maybe lead the long form video market better
Happy for the competition, sad that it came from a place that will probably censor things even harder.
Okay peertube, now's your time to shine! Become the default for the Fediverse by stepping in during this power struggle
I'm all for it, America needs to be reminded of what capitalism actually is.
the way i imagine it:
- as long as it's american companies running everything, it's "fair" and "free market".
- as long as some company from abroad manages to do things better and more efficient, and american companies come under pressure, we'll suddenly erect trade barriers and market hurdles to "protect american values", "for our national security" or sth else. i've seen this soo many times. people who "just follow the rules" as long as the rules benefit them. as soon as the same rules start biting them in their own ass, suddenly for some reason they say that we need to change the rules.
Kinda like the EV situation in Europe (especially germany). European car makers benefited from cheap chinese labor force for centuries now while their executives, sitting in china, saw in real time how china started working on EV cars and thought nothing about it, riding high on their hubris since "no one could ever outpace them". And now that china outpaced them the european coalition quickly released enormous tariffs on chinese EV imports to "secure the european car market" and "save themselves from the sheer wave of cheap (and nowadays also way better) EV cars." When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
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