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RE: DTube vs. YouTube vs. Patreon
You contradicted yourself somewhat. You said that on Patreon nobody is dictating what kind of content can be monetized, but Patreon can also revoke your account if you don't follow their terms of service (which can be ambiguous, it gives them the power to revoke anyone). Patreon is indeed dictating the content that can be monetized, they have revoked accounts for several people whom they don't want to support due to their politics.
Yeah, very good point. I also forgot to bring up how one way to lose monetization on DTube is if a video gets a big downvote from a singe whale. Doesn't seem to be a problem for most people, but it is a possibility if someone gets swept up in some Steem drama. Thanks for watching!
This is true. For me the key difference is that when Patreon demonetizes you, that's it, that's the end of the story on their platform. You can't be monetized there. On Steem, when a whale downvotes, that is one whale of many. If another whale or a large enough group (once the stake is distributed widely enough) counters that, then it can be reversed in practice. It just requires a culture that values protecting speech from retaliation, even if it's highly offensive/controversial/etc.
Yeah, very true. Thanks for the thoughtful responses, this is exactly the type of discussion I was hoping to have when I made this video 🙂