I still like to make video content, so I post it on my self hosted PeerTube instance instead: tube.jeena.net
That way I’m far awaybfrom fame but also drama ^^
Comment on Content is King? - How it sucked out the joy of personal websites
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m having this internal debate as well.
I run a blog. I write content and I’m surprised at what gets visits. But I also don’t care about popularity. It’s a place where I can relay information.
My friends have YouTube/twitch. They’re extremely popular, in the 100k+ range. They all quit their job (I did not). But they’re so incredibly involved in every single “drama” that every talk about coding with them ends up being about how x-person on Twitter is a jerk or how to game the system.
Seems exhausting, and I wonder if it’s worth it.
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 8 months ago
GigglyBobble@kbin.social 8 months ago
My friends have YouTube/twitch. They’re extremely popular, in the 100k+ range. They all quit their job
That's surprising to me. Are 100k+ really enough to make a living?
AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 8 months ago
On youtube barely, on twitch for sure. Generally you would have more income streams like a patreon and some such. Maybe even merch. If you're doing it all solo, you can easily earn 4-5k per month with these numbers and that's often better than many full time jobs.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Im definitely fudging the numbers. They probably have more in other places and use all sorts of other social media platforms. And I don’t really bother to verify since I start to tune them out when they go into “getting more traffic by optimizing TikTok shorts” or whatever.
UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Username checks out.
I’m kidding, it can be good to have friends who aren’t the same as you. But seriously that sounds so TIRING. Like omfg just get a job at that point, so you can at least forget about it when you aren’t working.
When I came back from winter holidays to my job I didn’t remember ANYTHING. It was glorious
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 8 months ago
How do you count your visits? I don’t even see whether mine has visits or not lol. I am not even sure if counting people would count as “tracking”, so I am not sure whether it’s acceptable in my books. The only feedback I got were a couple of emails.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I set up Google analytics on it years ago and only check for visits. Ive been meaning to switch to an open-source alternative but I’m extremely lazy on that end, since I’m not interested in monetizing.
UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Just turn it off. If this isn’t a business then you don’t need it. Free yourself :)
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 8 months ago
I remember having something parsing the apache logs and counting people. At some point I’d look at the stats several times a day ruining all the fun. I uninstalled it and now only write for myself. Couldn’t be happier about it!
porksoda@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There are open source and self hosted alternatives if that’s your thing.
pavnilschanda@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Same here. At this point I’ve effectively become an internet ‘hermit’ and avoid social media. Sometimes I’d even avoid Youtube because of how overstimulating the content are. I don’t know how useful this will be for my wellbeing though, since I don’t even ‘touch grass’ either. And yes, I’m autistic so the current state of the web is borderline intolerable for me.
UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Good for you, I’d consider my online “diet” to be the same, although I do count lemmy and masto etc as social media, just not quite so pernicious as the mainstream corpo ones