YouTube Launches Communities, a Discord-Like Space For Creators and Fans (techcrunch.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/09/18/1956210/youtube-launches-communities-a-discord-like-space-for-creators-and-fans
- Source link: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/18/youtube-launches-communities-a-discord-like-space-for-creators-and-fans-to-interact-with-each-other/
> At its Made On YouTube event on Wednesday, the company [1]announced a new dedicated space for creators to interact with their fans and viewers. The space, called "Communities," is [2]kind of like a Discord server built into a creator's channel . With Communities, YouTube is hoping creators won't need to use other platforms like Discord or Reddit in order to interact with viewers. Communities are a space for viewers to post and interact with other fans directly within a creator's channel. In the past, viewers have been limited to leaving comments on a creator's video. Now, they can share their own content in a creator's Community to interact with other fans over shared interests. For instance, a fitness creator's Community could include posts from fans who are sharing videos and photos from their most recent hike.
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> To start, the feature is only available to subscribers. The company sees Communities as a dedicated space for conversation and connection, while still allowing creators to maintain control over their content. Conversations in Communities are meant to flow over time, YouTube says, as they would in any other forum-style setting. The new Communities feature shouldn't be confused with YouTube's Community feature, which is a space for creators to share text and images with viewers. The feature launched back in 2016, and doesn't allow viewers to interact with each other. YouTube is testing Communities now on mobile devices with a small group of creators. The company plans to test the feature with more creators later this year before expanding access to additional channels in early 2025.
[1] https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/a-new-youtube-communities-experience-for-fans-by-fans/
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/18/youtube-launches-communities-a-discord-like-space-for-creators-and-fans-to-interact-with-each-other/
Are they going to replace the comments section? (Score:3)
Youtube already are marginalizes comments on their interface. they are dead last on the webapp for phones below all the recommendations, and you have to leave youtube and go to account settings to even see your own.
Re: (Score:3, Insightful)
It doesn't matter, Google will shut it down in like a year.
Re: (Score:3)
This.
Why waste time on a google product? 75 percent chance anything you do with it will be wiped in a few years. And if its like discord you have to get your colleuges/friends to use it and that's a big effort to see your community go up in smoke because google.
Re: (Score:1)
Youtube censors comments and the banned words list is a secret and AI can add new ones to a list that you can never use again
Google sucks (Score:3)
Ads are the scourge of the internet and Google is the biggest pusher of them. Screw them and their products
So... (Score:2)
It's the new place for swastikas and porn?