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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 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.

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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    1 year ago

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

    It is probably better that those two backed out. Based on comments from the creators that remained, both Kurzgesagt and CGP Grey weren’t good partners and seemed to want to make the business a lot more exploitative of the other talent.

    I also look at it like this, Grey has had over a decade to build the kind of business Wendover has but didn’t. Grey has posted 6 videos in a year. Wendover IndustriesTM does that in a slow month.