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

submitted 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

I wouldn't for the reasons mentioned by others.

There's no monetization; I would have to find, attract, and deal with sponsors on my own.

There's not really much in the way of audience which makes the above harder since I would need numbers/

There's also the whole thing about bandwidth.

Then there's all the sysadmin stuff to do, security updates, etc.

Then there's still the legal and other admin roles, presumably, about DMCA, etc.

I do not have the time for any of that right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think that running a YT channel large enough to support yourself has problems of equal magnitude. I also think that depending on making money from YT impressions rather than trying to develop other means of monetizing your videos (merch, embedded sponsors, patrons, community servers, digital assets, etc) is pretty risky, given YT's track record of radically restructuring and cutting payments and Google's track record of screwing over everyone who ever counts on them. It only takes a moment to get de-platformed for literally no damn reason. It's worth the effort to try it. All a creator really has to do is say, "it's okay if you mirror this content on PeerTube." That's not a lot of work.