People often make content for the love of it. But it still takes a lot of work, effort, and resources. It has a cost associated with it. I would love it if tomorrow everyone left YouTube for peertube. The problem is rewarding and supporting those that do. Patreon works for some, but not all of them. That's what YouTube is currently providing and why they stay. There's also things like nebula, but again, that's not available to everyone.
Perhaps a not for profit needs to be formed that will collect funds to maintain several instances of peertube or something similar. And all funds gathered above and beyond that would then be put in a pool to be doled out to the creators whose content was viewed the most. Up to a limit of a liveable wage for their area?
Yes, finding valuable content is a hard thing to do and no amount of AI or algorithms will really help with it. We honestly need to get together and crowdsource a directory of informed presenters as judged by others informed on the subjects.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You’re totally right. No arguments here. Sadly I don’t see anything like that happen anytime soon. The money is where stupid is.
I left YouTube shortly after they introduced monetization. Before it was bonkers and full of funny or interesting or just stupid content that people did out of joy or even with a glance of hope for a tiny “fame”. Then it slowly went dogshit when everything became optimized for ad-revenue and even thumbnailing became a precision-science. There’s still vimeo and the others, but mostly I just don’t consume video anymore. Maybe occasionally a game-review on YouTube, sorted by views and scrolled down a ton to find those with nearly no views. Not for their opinion but to see the game in action.