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YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe (www.dexerto.com)
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[–] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

You can't really monetize PeerTube though, so you're never going to get full time creators there. Media distribution has always been a choke point. Always will be. Short of a non-profit foundation and a unionized creators guild joining forces to operate a decentralized subscription video platform, you're never going to have a real alternative. I mean... there's Nebula which is basically that, but who goes to Nebula, it's full of lefties and educators and theatre people.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

    You can’t really monetize PeerTube

    Lots of channels have a link to their Patreon or a tip jar; lots do live reads.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 hours ago* (2 children)

    I'm with GreenBeard on this and was always saying that monetization is the biggest peertube problem. Patreon and such are not an ideal option, subscription is IMO. A subscription that would be distributed through authors fairly, but that's not an easy task I suppose.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 hours ago

    Like I said, Nebula does it and it's pretty good. Hard to get on as a creator unless you have a proven follower base elsewhere though. They're still mainly using YouTube as a farm league.

    Might be interesting to see Nebula set up a fund for PeerTube creators and start using that as a farm league, but I don't know that they have the subscription revenue for that yet.

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