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I got my subscription a few weeks ago. I’m kinda regretting going for a 1 year sub. For one I thought both Kurzgesagt and CGP Grey where on here only to learn they both backed out of the project. According to Wendovers video https://nebula.tv/videos/wendover-how-a-small-group-of-creators-built-a-150-million-business/ [https://nebula.tv/videos/wendover-how-a-small-group-of-creators-built-a-150-million-business/]. I get the sense this happened around the same time they sold a good chunk of the company to Discovery. Seeing all the creators hang out on a yacht isn’t exactly a selling point for me as a subscriber who’s struggling to make rent. I’m also pretty disappointed by the lack of some features. Many of the videos don’t even have captions and the ones that do are using a poor quality auto capture. I also really want comments. I know YouTube comments are known for being utterly terrible, but education is a conversation and with channels like these commenters can provide a lot of added educational value. Also the history feature is pretty handy. I go down rabbit holes then totally forget where I left off when logging back in. And even shorts, creators use those. I hate the YouTube shorts but if I where to abandon YouTube I’ll lose out on that content. By using shorts the content creators are keeping me going to YouTube . I’ve also noted a lot of content is still formatted to YouTube. They have the click boxes at the end for more videos wich isn’t a function in Nebula. It’s like the videos are ending with a broken UI. Overall I’m seeing a lot of effort to make the platform appealing to creators. However, there’s much less effort in appealing to subscribers. Long term that seems like it’s going to cause the whole thing to fail.

I got my subscription a few weeks ago. I’m kinda regretting going for a 1 year sub.

For one I thought both Kurzgesagt and CGP Grey where on here only to learn they both backed out of the project.

According to Wendovers video https://nebula.tv/videos/wendover-how-a-small-group-of-creators-built-a-150-million-business/. I get the sense this happened around the same time they sold a good chunk of the company to Discovery.

Seeing all the creators hang out on a yacht isn’t exactly a selling point for me as a subscriber who’s struggling to make rent.

I’m also pretty disappointed by the lack of some features. Many of the videos don’t even have captions and the ones that do are using a poor quality auto capture. I also really want comments. I know YouTube comments are known for being utterly terrible, but education is a conversation and with channels like these commenters can provide a lot of added educational value.

Also the history feature would be pretty handy. I go down rabbit holes then totally forget where I left off when logging back in.

And even shorts, creators use those. I hate the YouTube shorts but if I where to abandon YouTube I’ll lose out on that content. By using shorts the content creators are keeping me going to YouTube .

I’ve also noted a lot of content is still formatted to YouTube. They have the click boxes at the end for more videos wich isn’t a function in Nebula. It’s like the videos are ending with a broken UI.

Overall I’m seeing a lot of effort to make the platform appealing to creators. However, there’s much less effort in appealing to subscribers. Long term that seems like it’s going to cause the whole thing to fail.

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
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    8 months ago

    First, it would take a lot to convince the CEO to allow comments, which I kind of agree with. I feel like pushing people to Reddit, Patreon, or Lemmy is better for the creator.

    Second, I don’t see the creators hanging out on a yacht. If anything, they are moving around in other forms of transportation for our amusement as part of Jet Lag.

    Third, I don’t think Nebula is trying to compete with YouTube, but instead is intending to be a place to create longer form content. Shorts is antithetical to that.

    I think a lot of people are looking to Nebula as a way to replace YouTube when that isn’t what Nebula is trying to be.