So are we going to end up getting scraped by YouTube content farms?

So you’ve all see videos from channels like Emkay and Updoot Studios or the like right? The ones that shamelessly steal Reddit content and reads it, no attribution or linkback to the original, all while making fuck-you levels of ad revenue?

Are we going to start seeing those channels pivot to Lemmy soon? What’s everyone’s thoughts on that?

I find the idea mostly frustrating because you just know that they’re all rich. All their videos have millions or tens of millions of views and all of them are monetized. In fact they go out of their way to water down edgy posts to keep AdSense happy while diluting and destroying whatever humor the vulgarities in that post might have been intended to bring. Meanwhile, Lemmy devs are mostly unpaid since it’s an open source project, and most instance owners are losing money on server costs in order to host a space for people to enjoy.

Hey, if any YouTube channels see this and you end up making Lemmy content videos, instead of offering lip service on how much you support creators or this platform or anything, maybe take some of your Lemmy content revenue and donate it to the development fund or to the instance where you got the content from, thanks. Then people will be less likely to say you stole it.