Steemit and Dtube vs. YouTube (Dtube Version)

in dtube •  7 years ago 


Recently, I decided to upload my videos to D.tube and Steemit, before I upload them to YouTube. And even though it’s only been a few days, I want to just compare the YouTube experience with the Dtube experience. I’m going to look at several aspects of the platforms and compare and contrast them. The categories I will be looking at today are Layout, Tags, Community Guidelines, Monetization Model, and Uploader.

I finally got this to upload on Dtube. My advice: don't try to upload your snapshot or tags until the video has completed uploading. I find this helps the uploader along.

By the way, a big thanks to the very talented artist @ankapolo for making the thumbnail/snapshot for this video. Check her out! Her work is top tier.


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Hi Tjkirk! I really enjoyed this video as I said previously.

I would love to hear you this coming Sunday on one of the MSP wave radio show held by a good friend of mine here on Steemit. His name is @aggroed. He's Steem witness #7.

The show begins at 8pm EST and run til 11pm+.

If you're interested let us know what is the best way to contact you or you can always contact me or @aggroed on the PAL discord server.

Discord

Here's last Sunday's show.

Minnow Mayor Town Hall

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Ooh, that would be awesome! The radio is even more unhinged than steemit lol (as we learned today) ;)

Excellent to see you on this platform @tjkirk. I've been following your career on the youtubes and was very happy to see people like you and Pakman move away from the terrible format that Youtube has enforced upon us all!

I'm rooting for DTUBE to do really well! At one point, I was getting over $130 in ad revenue from my videos on YT but now I barely break $20 a month (I have close to 5k subs as of right now).

These special snowflakes and media giants are killing it for us!

I'm sorry but this thing doesn't work, and I TRIED!

Dude, I'm one of those people who has under 1k subs, but has been a partner for years. I'm about to get fucked. I'm at like 950 atm.

I hope dTube gets bigger than youtube. Now that youtube has imposed a shitty rule to not give the monetization facility to channels with under 1000 subscribers, I'm going to quit what little channel i had.
Moving in on to dTube!

yes we have to accept the change of nature to be in the wave of new things ,youtube is still good but it just got its rival in the world platform.

That will not happen but hey, competition is good

Youtube is definitely no charity.

I recently got to know about Dtube and imo the concept is freakin' awesome! It has a lot more motivation for every individual user, which you can see in the overall mood in the community! Everyone is, at least for now, a lot more helpful and friendly than the people on YT.

Also, great video, you have my sub!

I'm glad that you can share your real opinion on Dtube and be rewarded for that. Nice exposure of pros and cons of each platform, we all know Dtube is in very early stage, we can call it beta. I think better times are about to come in the future !!

Well put.

Nice video @tjkirk,

I have never made a video on Youtube and have been considering finally making one. Still trying to decide on what platform to choose. Maybe I'll just say screw it and go with both. This video was super helpful. Thanks again!

Ryan

Welcome to Steem, TJ! It's really good to see someone new here giving specific critical feedback to Steemit and DTube from an experienced perspective, in addition to bringing your other content here.

The graphic is awesome, by the way @ankapolo.

(^_^) Thank you so much @pfunk! its a pleasure and a big honor to collaborate with people that create awesome content and bring value to the platform. I will be posting "the making of" shortly, with some additional graphics to explore the theme further :)

very nice post dear @tjkirk

Steemit and Dtube are best friends, they go hand in hand and compliment each other greatly! Best to use both :)

  ·  7 years ago Reveal Comment

As we all understand the past few year shave been crazy with Youtube, First when it came out after google
bought it out for 1.6 billion the platform went crazy with all the video of cats then it blew to be such a great
platform for free speech, where everybody could express themselves freely .Google made it even better since one could get paid for the content they provided.

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Fast forward 2017 the things have gone from bad to crazy with all the sensorship and besides the sensorship Google
has been using people's content to further their business in advertising and with just minimal payment .
For instance @jerryBanfield who has a following of 217k gets paid at least $20 a month for the content he creates.

These may or many not be true but all the same all those who are in these space knows that its been crazy because they
were also affected by the same sensorship.

d tube.jpg

On the other hand thank God for 2017 and for steemit these has been such an incredible year because of dtube ,
as we all know dtube allows one to upload content without any sonsorship since the platform is decetralised and the beauty of it is that we all get paid by the people themselves.

It wont be long before more people could realize what a great platform steemit has just provided .these is just the beginning . dtube could dethrone to come out as the number one platform of the centurery even as tings continue to be decentralized .

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

I decided to upload my videos to D.tube and Steemit
I think Dtube really needs to work on its uploader

I'm looking forward to our next post

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same its uploader needs some TLC because Ive tried to use it for the last few days and haven't uploaded a single video yet :(

Try different file formats. I noticed that any windows media player formats do not work.

I'm using MP4 file format

Thats weird. Mp4 formats work for me.

it uploads ok but when clicking the submit button after everything has been done, It seems to hang and take along time, Ive left it for 30 min to 1hr but nothing.

Found the problem I was using Edge but I switched to the latest version of Firefox and it works.

Ahhhh, ok. Thanks for the update! Maybe someone can find this info in the future! :)

Youtube will just kill it self if it continues like it does atm.
The trending videos (at least in germany) are pure cancer and I don't think it will be much better in other countries...

its absolutely trash here in Texas, U.S. also

How NSFW is handled by default can be changed in your user settings over at steemit.
Id assume this will either soon apply on dtube as well or it will save your selection id hope. It might even a be a bug that it doesnt apply crosssite.

Yeah, censorship wont happen. Yes, it might not be promoted as heavily if its downvoted by a whale, but that also drives down their voting power, and in effect its how you make money, by selling your steem$ to someone who wants to do it. I mostly looked at subscriptions on youtube anyways, id assume it will eventualy be very similar here as soon as enough people will be using the platform. Also, as the entire community accumulates more steem this will become a smaller issue. But the actual contributors(that includes comments and the like), at least the ones which are upvoted, will allways be in total more powerful as at least 50% of the steem is put into your voting power, you cant sell that 50%.
So, while you can "manipulate" it via buying steem, this same fact also rules out the use of votebots. You cant just create hundrets of accounts.
And many votes very soon will decrease your voting power, so even then you cant just go around and downvote a lot at near full power.

This video was exactly what i have been looking for. A+ for sure. The few problems you stated about STEEM and DTUBE im sure will be fixed seeing most is still in beta. Keep up the good work man you gained a follower. #Asshole-Empire

I don't think DTube will ever surpass YouTube but I surely hope they make some waves and give those censoring bastards a run for their money. Been following for a long time TJ, excited you now have a platform where you can go uncensored.

I'm agree with you about DTube! This is such a refreshing change of pace. The resolution quality and the upload speeds are lacking but the freedom to say whatever you want and upload whatever you want makes up for it. Also the money you can make on here is 🔥🔥🔥

Really good assessment of D.tube and Youtube. Don't want to put all your eggs in one basket but it's nice to have a place where you aren't constantly fucked for your opinion...(by fucked I meant in a way that TJ wouldn't want to be fucked. )

D.tube and Steemit really doing great job last year. In my opinion this year will be rocket to to the moon..

Nowadays the facilities provided by youtube has been narrow day by day in sense of newcomer on youtube channel so if you tell us about it genuinely than it can be turn out handy for beginner.

Mr.@tjkirk
Steemit and Dtube are very useful for everyone and very easy to use and get paid.youtube is little bit tough.

I really want to move my photo blog here and start making some videos but I already have problems with tags. I do LEGO builds for my blog and when I search for LEGO here I'm nowhere in the results, nowhere. But there are people there who DON'T have LEGO in their tags but just mention LEGO is the post itself. WTF? I have a tag and mention it in the posts and nothing. Weird as fuck.

Nice post plz upvote me just once

I hope this gets popular.
Youtube ads just suck

I wonder if Youtube will ever go back to the way it was before

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

I'm definitely cheering for Dtube. YouTube has gone full corporate shill, and once you go shill, you never go back.

Okay.... Thanks for sharing.....

Thank you .. I was also wondering about the delay to upload .. this helps

Can't wait to start watching TJ on Dtube! Been so sick of youtube for awhile now....

d.tube is nice platform

Really good assessment of D.tube and Youtube. Don't want to put all your eggs in one basket but it's nice to have a place where you aren't constantly fucked for your opinion...(by fucked I meant in a way that TJ wouldn't want to be fucked. )

Hey, I heard you mentioned a Coinbase account, just letting you know that Coinbase has huge fees, you should always use GDAX instead for waaaaay smaller fees, because it's the same site and you use the same account, but GDAX is the actual exchange with market orders, while Coinbase is just a pretty and simple instant order UI with huge fees to trap beginners who don't know better, don't let them rip you off and welcome to the world of crypto TJ, been hoping you'd join us for a while now, thanks for all the amazing content over the years!

Just get DTUBE and dont use Youtube!

I can't even write a comment on Dtube!, and I can't even see the 60% of the content that is HERE on dtube... wtf, how this is gonna be succesful?. in any way.... I mean.

I can't even write a comment on Dtube!, and I can't even see the 60% of the content that is HERE on dtube... wtf, how this is gonna be succesful?. in any way.... I mean.

Steemit and Dtube sounds better than Youtube I'm really curious if you will abandon Youtube as quickly as possible no real reason to support a platform that only likes to bend you over and fuck you all day long.

d.tube is nice platform

I look good.
I want you to be filled with happy things. :)

Shit is definitely hitting the fan over on Youtube. Many creators and I do mean many are looking for a way out. So far Dtube seems like it might be it. To compete with youtube you need massive bandwidth and storage which would cost billions just to setup, and then billions just to maintain. Not something an ordinary Joe is going to do. So Dtube or something similar seems to be the answer, but you make a LOT of good points in this video. There needs to be some control. I'm all about freedom but for a platform to succeed it does have to have some standards.

This is just like YouTube 2.0! I might end up ditching YouTube altogether if enough content creators migrate over here.

I agree with your scores. YouTube has been so disheartening for so long; I just started uploading to DTube and posting on Steemit and I am fucking THRILLED!

youtube can´t win this fight, good video btw

Over time steem will fix those issues.

with IPFS ? I don't think so...

with IPFS ? I don't think so...

I really hope that some major content creators move over to dtube

At the very least this platform is an interesting experiment. YouTube has pretty remained the monolithic undisputed giant for too long, even if this site fails, should it draw enough attention it may provoke a strategy change among the inept youtube team.

I watched the video and what I can say is with time DTube & Steemit will improve, we on this platform know of the flaws with it but we know youtube has its own flaws to deal with no platform is perfect but yeah DTube & Steemit is the future.

If more big youtubers like you @tjkirk get the word out on other social medias about steemit & DTube then this platform will success where youtube failed and in closeing I don't want youtube to fail. Im not like that but if there is a viable competitor in town it would soon clean its act up and I think dTube a viable competitor. The steemit Community would welcome the youtube community I am sure of that since I see that this community is friendly to new comers

I think what it comes down to simple - YouTube is going in the wrong direction, while DTube is going in the right direction. If we can overcome to massive numbers advantage that YouTube has, we can be very successful here.

Good staffs, good self analysis

We need to phase Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube out.

I was having trouble with the Dtube uploader. Maybe it's because I uploaded the snapshot 1st...

Steem it is good

Pleasant post plz upvote me just once

What is dtube

New platform emerges and its awesome....
Then it gets popular and has to be regulated....
Then people migrate to another new platform...

I'm afraid we haven't seen the end just yet

its the nature of people to migrate after s time period.

There's some truth to your comment but it's harder to regulate decentralized platforms like the Steem-Blockchain Steemit, DTube and other frontends are based on than centralized platforms like Youtube, Twitter and Facebook. Sure it's theoretically possible for governments, etc. to take down frontends for the Steem-Blockchain but it's not possible for them to take down the decentralized Steem-Blockchain itself where the data are linked which themselves are saved in the also decentralized Interplanetary Filesystem (dear Steemians who are already for a longer time active than me in the Steem-Blockchain, please correct me if I'm wrong).

That means yes, governments could take down frontends like Steemit and DTube but everyone is also able to build a new non-censored frontend and the actual data are permanently stored in the Steem-Blockchain and IPFS and can't be deleted.

Its impossible to regulate a decentralised platform. At least not unless you have a world government which agrees to it and has the manpower to take down all computers around the world which function as nodes.
It would be impossible to take down even highly illegal content without every node on the planet agreeing or being forced to remove that content.

DTube is the killer DApp for $STEEM value

someone vote me please.....

I think your Post is for a big group of people very helpful!
Thx for making this Website for us!
Upvote when your in my opinion @alokkamboj

Youtube is the best

Thanks for sharing this.

My opinion is that DTube and Steemit solve a lot of real-world problems for people who want to share content.

Very easy dtube. Youtube very difficult

so we have Steemit (reddit), Dtube (Youtube), Mania (9gag), Dsound (SoundCloud) and Many other awesome websites using the steem blockchain as alternative to other existing known websites.

I can get past the bugs on this site, already I'm getting good feed back on this site to the point where it almost feels too good to be true.

Great post @tjkirk

Great content..

I gave up on YouTube I'm only using it as a place to upload videos that I using on my blog here. They put up too many barriers to making money on it.

we can't just trash youtube to the lowest of its level,its giving best service till now ,its just got the new rival to compete.

Wow the best story

you having problems uploading more videos here too it seems?

I have always wanted to ask, is it only dtube videos that can be uploaded here on steemit

Steem is an open platform and almost any content can be posted or linked to. Videos hosted by YouTube and Vimeo can be embedded in Steemit and Busy.org, and DTube is linked to like you see here.

You did great and thanks for your useful sharing .Surely it will help others too.

Thanks for that vid bro! Helps a lot!

Yes maan!! Do it!!

Dtube will win.

Thanks for the helpful information about Dtube - and welcome to Steemit @tjkirk ! From my perspective, monetization is the key variable. Right? Even if some of the features of Dtube are not as robust as those of YouTube, if the monetization is superior, then it's easy to see that YouTube stars will continue to migrate to the new platform. Thanks for sharing your experiences!

Dtube is great. It reminds me of YouTube in its early days. Can't wait to see how this platform will develop. Keep going!

Figured that tip on the snapshot AFTER video upload also works better, too.

Steemit, D-Tube and all other viewports are the future of social networking. I am definitely moving my work and future projects to the Steem Blockchain. These are exciting times in the rewriting of how we operate!

very nice blog. dtube is the best
@tjkirk

The suggestion is very good thank

Tj you and your videos are amazing. You are easily the best vlogger. Glad to see you on dTube.

Love your style... but like you would give a shit! :D Great video!

Great video, great content. You gained me as a follower for sure.

I just uploaded my third vid on Dtube yesterday and its better than before I think. Its been frustrating before with the upload and playback but it's going to improve eventually. :-)

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Hi man

Hy @tjkirk I like your video..
This video veryy informatif. thank for sharing... please subscribe to my channel :)

I agree with this video. I like both the platforms for different reasons. I like YouTube for reach, and DTube for $$$.

Hopefully the youtube cancer is purged.

Hopefully the youtube cancer is purged.

dtube still has too much bugs. Otherwise it is great :)

Welcome on the good side, TJ

Long live the Amazing Atheist!

Very nice post keep it up

Nice comparison TJ. you should also check LBRY.io it's also a decentralized blockchain based content distribution platform.

Very informative well thought out video. Thanks for this!

Hey TJ! Thanks for help on twitter earlier. Glad to finally be here.

Please anyone with an assistance about dtube. Am trying to upload a video but it keeps saying “error upload a snap picture “

I want money!

DTUBE TO THE TOP !!!

its like rival to the youtube which is doing great to compete to its rival

I really hope this platform takes off, more competition creates more innovation!

Tjkirk, awesome videos. I really enjoyed them.
As far comparison of youtube and Dtube is concerned, I think DTube will beat Youtube for sure, Sooner or later, this is going to happen.

Steem it and dtube is very use ful now a day
I like the way how u upload post... i followed u
Nd plz hlp mee and vote my post plzzz

We love you tiej