Vid.me Shutting Down

Instead of video-hosting, there should just be a website of organized, searchable 'channels' with embedded videos hosted from other sites. If there were somthing like this, even if youtube took down your video you could just reupload in elsewhere and embed it in the same place.

Isn't that pretty much what search engine video searches do already?

Is 3rd from the left a male or female?

That's not user friendly at all.

To upload on Jewtube Jon Q Normie just has to click a couple of big red buttons and he doesn't have to pay for the bandwidth/server.

Try d.tube

That was pretty much expected, you need a lot of money to pay for Youtube's infrastructure

Don't forget that it was systematically impossible to gain attention on your videos because in order to tag your video for it to appear in a category, especially new videos for a given category, you needed to be verified. The only way to get verified is to have somewhere around the order of 50 followers along with a few more arbitrary guidelines you need to meet that are no where near as consequential. Basically you need to have already had a following on a different website that you could carry over with you onto vid.me if you wanted to make any headway towards growth at all. The platform discouraged any form of grassroots growth from taking place.

Kind of sad to see more competitors die on the one hand. On the other hand, I never bothered with Vid.me beyond testing once I determined that they actually transcode to an even lower quality than Youtube. Exactly the opposite of what I was looking for in a Youtube alternative. Vimeo is still better and doesn't look like it's going to die soon.

Vimeo will never be widely used since you have to pay them to upload videos

The future "Youtube alternatives" should not try to be Youtube 2.0. Niche, topical sites should be the new standard. They said one of their biggest problems was targeting ads without datamining the fuck out of its users.

Look at Full30 for example. Advertisers don't have to worry about targeting the wrong audience when every video is about firearms, the outdoors, survival, and other related topics. They also don't need to meticulously parse through every little thing you watch; they host a video, flash an ad for guns or gun accessories at the start, and leave a little comment field.

Now imagine a whole swarm of Mediagoblin websites following this example. Sounds like a more sustainable idea than a general purpose site like Vidme. The P2P-assisted-hosting websites like Bitchute have nowhere near the userbase needed to make any significant impact on reducing costs, nor do they have an incentive for users to help.