I’m scared

  • tiredofsametab
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    295 months ago

    Creators won’t go there because (a) almost none even know about it (b) there’s no audience there for the ones that do and © there’s no monetization after the first two are met and some people do youtube for a job.

    Audiences won’t go there because (a) even fewer people who watch youtube would know what peertube is or that it exists and (b) creators are not natively there leading to a loop.

    Those things need to be fixed first.

    • dactylotheca
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      205 months ago

      there’s no monetization after the first two are met and some people do youtube for a job.

      The answer that people usually give to this is something like “monetization is evil”, because apparently content creators should all work for free

        • dactylotheca
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          105 months ago

          Good on you, but people are much less likely to donate like that when compared to the platform itself supporting monetization somehow

      • tiredofsametab
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        55 months ago

        An egg came first, but it came from something genetically extremely close to a modern chicken (you can’t hatch a chicken from anything that is not a chicken egg and there’s no compelling evidence that one suddenly mutated itself in all the right ways to become a chicken before laying that egg).

        Anyway, on the actual topic, yeah, I think I agree with everything you’ve mentioned here. I think it would take YouTube doing something profoundly stupid to give enough of an opening that any alternative (which may not necessarily even wind up being PeerTube – people may end up going to even something like PornHub instead (and I think all the others like DailyMotion are (mostly?) dead now)) to get a chance. I don’t see companies like Nebula ever going the route of opening up like YouTube .