TubeFree is a new Peertube by BT Free
Good day all. I now have a nonprofit called BT Free for Big Tech Free. It is a digital privacy rights, advocacy and consulting nonprofit. We're currently working on our 501(c)3.
Our first platform is Peertube, set up at TubeFree.org. We have registrations open, but no upload. If you'd like to upload, we're looking for quality content on our moderated instance. We can also attempt to help folks get their own set up if folks would prefer to do that. The goal is to start actively building out system to help people move from Big Tech.
This is still a major work in progress, but I'd love to hear folks thoughts on any creators that might be receptive to copying their content to Peertube or any platforms people would be interested in having to move your content to.
I'm investigating some kind of revenue sharing or something with creators. I also want to pass on funds to developers actively working on the Fediverse.
And I have a thought to take donations, but also maybe do like some and charge monthly amounts for more resources. Or do funding drives. Other things. If anyone has suggestions I'd love to hear them.
I might even run our own BT Free community here on Pieces.social if folks would be interested in following that.
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
At the moment, its challenging for creators to generate income from Peertube. In theory, the avenue they have is through patreons and the like, but in practice, peertube doesn’t yet have the volume of users to make that work. And as a result, it’s going to be hard to use any kind of “premium/paid” tier service, simply because there won’t be many takers.
In my mind, right now, if you’re trying to attract creators, you’re going to need to reduce as many barriers as you can for them to move over. That may mean co-existing accounts on bigtech platforms and on peertube, and in terms of helping with your running costs, voluntary donations are the best way of doing it for now, until peertube gets a larger volume of users.
Either way, we spun up our own peertube instance a few weeks ago too, so welcome to the vidiverse :)
ozoned@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I agree. We're in a chicken and egg problem. No creators because no viewers, no viewers because no creators. I've started Fireside Fedi to help make some kind of content. I'm setting up this NonProfit to show there's an actual business behind it. I've opened the Peertube to attempt to make that barrier to entry lower.
I have some ideas on how to help people upload to multiple places easier, but I'm no dev and need to talk to a friend I could probably interest.
Thank you for the welcome. :-)
I'm running my own auto-follow index at ptindex.btfree.org if you'd like to get added to it.
Also going to attempt to create a search index this week. I have found far too many unsavory instances on the public on. So attempting to provide value with building our own.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Most people don’t start making videos to make money. In the early Tube days there was no money.
PeerTube only has 1 less avenue for monetization than YT, among dozens.
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Absolutely. I’m one of them. But there’s a lot of peertube instances that serve that need.
The OP was talking about creating a moderated instance, with high production quality requirements for members, with the possibility of charging for extra upload capacity etc. And that narrows the field down to people who either make their living from producing video content, or want to make their living from producing video content. That’s the group I was talking about
Absolutely, but the one its missing is a major source of income for most professionals and semi professionals who make their living from video content. And folk who rely on YouTube advertising aren’t just going to be able to drop YouTube for Peertube whilst keeping a consistent income stream. Which means the OP (and the OP specifically, not peertube in general) will need to make space for allowing those users to exist in a way that encourages them to move to Peertube, without cutting off the income they currently make from centralised corporate platforms.
My partner and I run a peertube instance out of our own pockets, and we make videos and host other folk making videos, without caring about their quality or experience. For us, it’s about giving folk voices. But I wasn’t talking about peertube in general, or folk like myself, I was addressing the OPs situation
3dmvr@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
in the early fays it was the main/only viable platform for posting videos and getting eyes in you, ppl thag blew up would become famous actual celebrities going on talk shows lol
Sackeshi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not anymore, people have jobs which take up at least 8 hours of their day, sleep another lets round it to 8 hours, then other responsibilities. Anyone who seriously want to make quality videos on a consistent schedule wants to make money and the end goal being to turn it into their job.
People on Youtube are much more easily able to make money and make a living. Most of it actually has nothing to do with Youtube other than the fact that Youtube provides them with a base of billions of potential viewers.
No one is going to a platform thats “just for fun” because content quality will suffer and be less enjoyable for creators.