Most (all) of the creators I watch have patreon/buymeacoffee/merch/sponsored videos. I’ve heard from many of them that the amount of ad revenue they receive from YouTube is a rounding error compared to that. No reason every single creator on peertube cant put a link in the description to donate, sell merch, etc and its not conditional on tiptoeing around youtube’s ai fuelled demonitization that constantly steals the little ad revenue they would have otherwise received
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MSgtRedFox@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Part of people’s motivation for all the YouTube entertainment content is getting paid. People get a slice of the ad revenue. I hate ads, not advocating.
How do people see a federated video service be used? Just for fun/community?
PlantObserver@lemmy.world 6 months ago
u_tamtam@programming.dev 6 months ago
Except for a marginal fraction of the top YouTubers, aren’t most of them getting paid to inject sponsored links and from donations/patronage these days? It seems that the deal you are referring to has been off the table for a majority of YouTubers for a very long time now, and I don’t see why other platforms wouldn’t be as good, or even healthier than YouTube to provide them that kind of revenue.
SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 6 months ago
You can get paid via sponsorships too.
Kethal@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Rather that individuals setting up or seeking out an instance, I could see institutes whose members produce content using it, but they’d have to really care about avoiding YouTube. Blender foundation is an example, and they have a peer tube instance, but maybe universities, nonprofits, or research institutions.
TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.page 6 months ago
There are quite a few creators who are primarily funded off patreon and release content to YouTube. I imagine a group like MCDM (Matt Colville) who has patreon, merch, crowdfunding, and products doesn’t really care about ad revenue.
spaduf@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
No reason a Nebula-type model couldn’t see success on peertube
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Good luck, Nebula is a paid service. My issue with peertube is that Framasoft is completely unwilling to allow others to make money. They seem to think they can make it work just on peoples kindness but hosting videos is extremely demanding compared to a mastodon instance.
What they should do is find a way to allow server admins and creators to sell content and goods. For instance, I would pay for a Proxmox guide or book.
spaduf@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
There are multiple monetization plugins and absolutely no built-in anti-monetization features. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for them to keep the base software monetization agnostic. They talked about this at length during the AMA a couple of weeks ago.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
I’m aware there are plugins but plugins aren’t a standard. I want a platform that is ad free and can handle payments. Obysee technically is a option but it sucked last time I used it and was full of Nazis
MSgtRedFox@infosec.pub 6 months ago
I do like nebula
spaduf@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
I don’t think anybody’s tried exactly nebula-style, but there is already newellijay.tv which seems to be a kind of video-outgrowth of an existing rural makerspace? Pretty cool project from what I’m seeing