I personally have never gotten into DTube just because I use Steemit, I don't really care for having to access multiple sites ie DLive, DTube, Steepshot, etc. Steepshot is the one alternate to Steemit I use as it's a clean simple interface and meant for photos and stuff on my phone. I realize I could use eSteem but I prefer to keep my Steemit activities to my computer as I don't like to type on my phone but don't mind posting from Steepshot. I remember when I first got on Steepshot I didn't totally understand the interaction between Steepshot and Steemit. I was kind of surprised what I posted on Steepshot also appeared in my Steemit blog feed, I thought they'd be seperate.
As for DTube I hear a lot of my buddies on here saying they like it and earn well from it but I find it glitchy, I don't really care for the interface, the content isn't as good as Youtube, granted it's younger I realize that, and I just don't like having to login to another site. I also dont like that they take 25% of the rewards and only host videos for 5 years.
I agree it sounds like a video site about dicks. Where does the "D" come from? Why isn't it Steemit Tube or SteemTube, oops scratch that, sounds like it could be a scat site with poop porn
I agree that its too much having another account especially when I haven't got any traction on the first one. Its also a big leap to have a video only page because i wouldn't have enough content. Maybe a video on Steemit every once in awhile would be more my style.
Youtube is also hard to compete with as of right now because of how successful it has gotten in recent years. The only thing that could make it fork is by becoming less connected and more catered to projects with a real budget. Then we would see a platform for people who just wanna upload home videos.
I really hope Steemit doesn't sell out either. It has a lot of potential to grow and now with facebook's true intentions being brought to light the world might need a new place to connect.
Yeah people talk about how DTube is gonna knock Youtube out, GFTO, not happening anytime soon. Youtube has some amazing content and has lots of long form content and very well produced content, things like Vice Documentaries are a favorite of mine. Your just not gonna find that type of stuff on DTube/Steemit. The fact we can only earn for 7 days doesn't really make it worthwhile to create long form content for here because you earn for 7 days and nothing after that where as on Youtube they are gonna keep making ad money forever. As it stands now DTube and even Steemit to some extent, at least in my opinion and for me personally is only worth doing if your also making content for another platform. I make Youtube content so I can come over here and post it here as well. If I wasn't on Youtube highly doubtful I would be making content for Steemit which pays me maybe $1 per video if I'm lucky.
Youtube also has an amazing algorithm. I can start watching one Youtube video and 6 hours later realized I've gone down the wormhole of watching one video after another after another. I dont find myself doing that on Steemit or DTube I really have to seek out content I wanna watch.
I agree to much of first part, but that of steepshot. I never could get it to work for my photos off ph and I now use snapseed. Do you know¿ is there a means of uploading video to steemit that does Not use utube or Dtube? Please. Thank-you. A dummie with a phone and no cpu. 😇