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YouTube --> PeerTube Next? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So Elon gutted Twitter, and people jumped ship to Mastodon. Now spez did... you know... and we're on Lemmy and Kbin. Can we have a YouTube to PeerTube exodus next? With the whole ad-pocalypse over there, seems like Google is itching for it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

First I’ve heard of alternatives to YouTube. Do they pay content creators the same or is it just people posting for free there?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pay?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YouTube pays content creators: https://www.youtube.com/howyoutubeworks/product-features/monetization/

This pay likely makes up a significant portion of YouTube creators' revenue in addition to in-video sponsor spots/whatever a creator's equivalent is. Without this kind of payment it's not likely that a YouTube competitor could take off in a meaningful way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I mean: if a platform is free, and there are no ads, and it's operated on a charity model where the operator has a monetary loss, where the money for the creators can come from?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They are just offering the free service of video hosting. There are no advertisements and no paid accounts, so all they could share are costs, not income. They are not an advertisement/monetarization service.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Each channel has a option to put your support information so people can pay you through patreon, etc. Peertube instances are offering their video hosting for free. You can put in video ads or patreon like services to enable payments. Peertube instances can ask for money as well to help with hosting costs. It's the same business model as all other federated software. The cost of video hosting is distributed by instances and also uses bittorrent to help with sharing the load.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So would it be feasible to run a peertube instance with content at sufficient scale, then inject and sell ads?