If you had seen youtube between years 1 and year 3 it was god damn awlful Dtube just needs a bit of time to get going.
I have been a on YouTube for over 10 years and made less than I have made on Dtube in a matter of weeks because people simply use ad blockers on YouTube now days and you are forced to seek out Sponsorships to make ends meat.
Dtube simply doesn't need ad's so you don't need sponsorship all you need is someone to like what you say and boom upvote=cash.
I have a video that has over 6 months worth of view time and has earned a whopping 4 cents due to how YouTube works.
If my top video on YouTube 6892 likes = 4c got the same on Dtube I would have made well over $1000 so yes YouTube right now may have the edge over Dtube but that will slowly change as more and more people are leaving YouTube due to the new rules where you spend hours and hours making a great video to be buried by people like Logan Paul who simply spew toxic crap out daily and there 8-12 year old viewers lap it up.
I am moving full time to Dtube and 50/50 on Twitch and Dlive.
Changes I would like to see is maybe 28 days where your videos can earn upvotes rather than the 7 days we have now but saying that things like Twitch rarely ever get watched as a VOD.
Just give Dtube and Dlive time and they will start to make real waves they may even start to make Google/YouTube rethink the stupied rules they keep rolling out and role back some of the changes.
Last thing for anyone with a large YouTube following thats thinking of moving to Dtube remember this You can always upload to both it's not hard it doesn't take hours to do in fact you can upload both at the same time as long as you have a half decent upload speed and if you don't then you mostlikely aren't uploading enough in the first place to make a difference one way or the other.
I can que 100+ videos to upload to YouTube at once (not that I have but I did que 30 at one point) and while they are uploding you could go ahead and upload them to Dtube (again not that you would want to 100 at a time)
Up load one video max a day to Dtube as people only have so much voting power (I would suggest maybe 1-4 a week max unless you have a large following.)
Greate video BTW gained a follower and an upvote.