PeerTube is fantastic with its decentralized model that prioritizes user privacy and control. However, it still struggles to gain widespread popularity.
What do you think could be done to enhance PeerTube’s appeal and functionality, possibly even becoming a serious alternative to YouTube?
The idea of PT being able to compete and differentiate itself from Google to content creators by paying them money is ridiculous. You’re attempting to attack the main strength of the competition, and they are way, way, way, WAY better at it than you are. It’s fucking doomed from the start. You have to play to your strengths, and manufacturing commercial content for revenue is just not what PeerTube’s design is even intended for.
Ten years ago you could have made an exciting pitch involving a block chain that pays hosters and content creators but now we can see how stupid that is. Well it doesn’t get less stupid without the blockchain.
From what I watch on YouTube, the best content isn’t monetizable… pretty much every creator I like relies almost completely on Patreon and merch.
I think the most important thing is having a good experience. First of all there doesn’t seem to be a good hub for peertube. I don’t exactly understand how it works and i assumed it would work like Lemmy, like hop on anywhere and you’ll find videos from all over but that didn’t seem to be the case in the few peertube pages I found.
They look like shit, like someone’s personal web 1.0 page from late 90s, and has an extremely limited video collection from like a single person. idk if I’ve done it wrong; let me know…
It’s the experience. For all its faults, YouTube has an easy url and app, it pushes videos on people so even if you don’t have an account you can experience it passively (which I’m sure not something people here would want but requiring the user to be proactive is a barrier to entry which severely limits popularity which disincentivizes content creators) and while everyone shits on its UI it’s centuries ahead of any peertube site I’ve seen (admittedly i haven’t seen many but after a few very disappointing ones i just stopped looking).