Peertube is better, but glad creators are thinking ahead.

    • Creat@discuss.tchncs.de
      141·
      16 hours ago

      Because it’s not an alternative to people with YouTube as a job. It’s great if you want to have a couple of videos hosted and watchable by others. There is no way to monetize them by their very definition and mission statement. Their own website says it was “created for non-commercial purposes”. It’s his job though, so he’s not the target demographic.

      You could integrate sponsors, which he doesn’t do on YouTube either. Or redirect to patron or similar services.

      There’s also no (or very little) discoverable for people who watch sometime similar, which YouTube actually does extremely well. So how do you grow your audience?

      • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        There is no way to monetize them by their very definition and mission statement.

        There absolutely is:

        • merch sales
        • sponsorships
        • donations

        The only monetization you’d be missing out on is AdSense.

        Their own website says it was “created for non-commercial purposes”.

        Who? Peertube? What it was created for doesn’t matter when they don’t run your channel.

      • atro_city@fedia.io
        21·
        2 hours ago

        @geerlingguy@mastodon.social needs to sync his content. It shouldn’t cost him much (if anything). If he has viewers willing to watch him on peertube, but they simply can’t and they are forced to watch him on youtube. You can’t build viewers on peertube by waiting for others or not uploading it to it.

        That’s basically the case for everbody on youtube going “but there’s nobody on peertube”. Yeah, it’ll probably stay that way if you don’t upload to peertube. That’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.

        • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
          3·
          44 minutes ago

          It shouldn’t cost him much (if anything)

          Probably wouldn’t cost him anything, except opportunity cost and server resources, which both would probably be next to nothing considering the size of the userbase. But it’s up to him if he wants to do that or not.

          • atro_city@fedia.io
            2·
            2 hours ago

            But it’s up to him if he wants to do that or not.

            That’s a pleonasm. Of course he can decide whether he wants to be part of the solution or not.