If you want me to prove a negative, I can’t do that.
Youtube isn’t profitable. Youtube has never been profitable. Frankly that’s incredibly unlikely to change. Amazon isn’t going to try to break into a space that is unprofitable, would require a monumental effort to actually draw creators (since just offering big creators money clearly didn’t work, see mixer or anyone else), and requires astronomical amounts of data storage even for AWS. They’re especially not going to do that when they just spent the last however many years watching multiple people do a much smaller task, take on twitch (again, mixer and the like), with zero success.
Would I love to see a not completely awful proper alternative to Youtube? Yes. It’s that going to come from Amazon? No. And no, peertube isn’t the answer either, and won’t be unless there’s an easy path to monetization for existing creators and data storage magically becomes free
If you want me to prove a negative, I can’t do that.
Youtube isn’t profitable. Youtube has never been profitable. Frankly that’s incredibly unlikely to change. Amazon isn’t going to try to break into a space that is unprofitable, would require a monumental effort to actually draw creators (since just offering big creators money clearly didn’t work, see mixer or anyone else), and requires astronomical amounts of data storage even for AWS. They’re especially not going to do that when they just spent the last however many years watching multiple people do a much smaller task, take on twitch (again, mixer and the like), with zero success.
Would I love to see a not completely awful proper alternative to Youtube? Yes. It’s that going to come from Amazon? No. And no, peertube isn’t the answer either, and won’t be unless there’s an easy path to monetization for existing creators and data storage magically becomes free