I totally agree with you @brandonfrye that These apps provide us platforms to post videos, music and Coding stuff etc. but they must at least let the Steemians know that they took 25% of their author rewards. I know lots of Steemians never knew about this and I don't think that make sense. I think they should provide a terms & conditions page to let us know about a certain percentage they took.
I also believe that they deserve to take some of our author rewards because they provide us new platforms which is totally different from Centralized Apps and The User's rewards will help them to pay their developers and other expenses, but at least they Must aware us that they will take a specific % of our author rewards.
I Mostly find your posts or visit your blog from Steemit platform. I think Brandon you should not GIVE UP DTube because I know in a long term you will get much success from DTube. I've seen that most of your videos deserved Upvotes from DTube but Still you didn't get. Even most of the funny videos got an upvote from DTube. I think you should Stay on DTube.
I appreciate you Brandon by uploading more videos on DTube!
The Terms of Service page is something I would love to see from all of these applications.. along with monthly expenditures so we know where our money is going. Transparency is key and is really what I aim to push for. And thanks for sharing how you find my content. I believe the majority of people are still using Steemit to find all content which makes sense as everything is published here as well. I'm still undecided whether I'll continue using Dtube but we'll see.