This is a terrible take, as most content creators I watch already cannot survive off of Youtube ad revenue and rely on third-party monetization, like Patreon subscriptions.

Besides the fact that plenty of people make content for free, from the simple love of creating something.

Lots of people did it on YouTube for years. Even more on other platforms.

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This book, YouTube's history, and the span of human history say otherwise. You're spouting capitalist rhetoric which is ultimately a lie told to us on repeat to encourage greed, selfishness, and individualism.

The platform you're using right now was built without profit motive, there's plenty of content. PeerTube can achieve the same.

Except for all the people already making unpaid content. I guess if you ignore them then yeah, you’re right. Great job advancing the conversation in a meaningful way.

You obviously didn't experience the early internet

People will create plenty of content for free. Basically every blog, early YT video and all of Wikipedia was made by people who just like creating stuff for free

There are already some youtubers linking to their patreon because their content gets demonetized frequently (shiey, gifgas).

I think this could be the way to go. Instead of patreon, liberapay could also be used.

I'm creating content and YouTube pulls from my Peertube. So I'll never lose it. All of these content creators are leaning on Patreon as none of them can count on ad revenue anymore. So people are already doing it.

And Peer tube will never fully replace YouTube, but also, it doesn't have to. Your local library, school, church, community space, doesn't need ad revenue.