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Today's web is the opposite of what early Internet utopians had in mind. Now the situation is somewhat similar to climate change: even committed activists can no longer turn the tide for the better. (lemmy.world)
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[–] bouh@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why do you want the traffic to specifically go to your own server? That's reasoning backward imo.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Let say you made your own claymation animations. If people go to your own site, they get no ads, and can choose to buy merch from you if they like. However, a common issue for a creator like that would be content thieves with an ad plan. They’d reupload to YouTube, claim it as their own, monetize ads, and maybe the people who see the first animations there don’t even hear about new ones. It’s a bad deal for everyone now (not even YouTube’s fault - it’s the fault of the number of bots, DDOS tools, and click farms on the internet)

[–] bouh@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

So it is a matter of copyrights and making money out of it...