Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good
3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 8 months ago
I have to say I think Peertube itself is good, but the content still isn’t there yet. Of course we all know that’s because there isn’t cash to be made on Peertube
Some instances have different ways of making money. TILVids for example shares money from donations with the creators. Theres also support buttons that help creators out. As well as ads on some instances as themes.
Its not as popular for the same reason your on fediverse, the interface allows anyone without ads to see your videos. The insentive does not always need to be $$, it most cases, its community building.
Also the iOS app is pure shit. Can’t even filter by language.
Counter point: I dont want to watch content that has a monetary incentive behind it.
Same, and it’s weird to me that so many people now believe that they deserve to be paid for participating in their hobbies.
Why exactly do you think people create content for you to consume in the first place?
Plenty of people uploaded stuff to youtube for years before it started giving them any money
Humans love sharing new things with each other, its part of our social structure and how we ensure our own survival. Its as natural as hunger or thirst.
Sharing knowledge. Lots of people are not primarily motivated by greed.
Wanting to get paid for your work, so that you can keep making stuff, is in fact not the same thing as greed. We have this assumption that everything on the Web should be free, or at least helped along by donations, but it’s not sustainable.
of course… but plenty are. When you see kids at school saying they want to be content creators as a job you know it is only going to get worse. I never said it was right or wrong but it is exactly what it is for a large percentage of people. Also can’t get past the fact that like googling something, watching a video on youtube is literally in peoples vocabulary
Should teachers stop making money too?
What content have you produced for free? Do you consider yourself greedy when you cash your work paychecks?
I know first hand that making content is a lot of work
That’s great to aspire for but there’s still an almost total lack of content in many genres I enjoy on YouTube. I don’t even think PeerTube has progressed as far as the Lemmy community in terms of content availability. Admittedly this is probably because text and image content is much easier to create, but as a user I don’t find much reason to spend time there yet.
chromodynamic@piefed.social 8 months ago
Got me thinking about how YouTubers get money. According to a quick web search, YT pays $0.01 to $0.03 per view. So if you release 10 videos a month, you made $0.10 per viewer. But Patreon memberships are typically around $5.00 a month, equivalent to $0.50 per view in the same scenario. Of course Patreon will take a cut, but it is still a lot more money.
So, if a lot of your viewers think your channel is good enough to donate to, ad money basically becomes an afterthought. In this case, the only advantage of YT over PT is discovery, i.e. the number of viewers likely to find your videos in the first place (but there's also more competition on YT, so...)
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think 1 cent per view is on the high end for YouTube
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 8 months ago
I don’t think this is realistic, most people will not open their wallets, especially since they can’t just go around paying a monthly subscription to everyone they watch.
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 8 months ago
chromodynamic@piefed.social 8 months ago
Some good points I hadn't considered!