• jqubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    3 days ago

    The question is how to get the creators there. A lot of people are on YouTube because of the ad revenue, but with no ads on PeerTube there’s no revenue to share. A lot of other for-profit companies have tried to lure these creators away with little success, so I’m not sure how a non-profit service is supposed to attract people who have turned content creation into a career.

    • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      Right. OP didn’t specify it has to be a technical shortcoming… or easy to solve. So I just said what I think is the biggest issue. Because I really think the platform itself, and the software are great. And still constantly improving.

      I think this is really difficult to impossible to overcome. Other for-profit platforms have failed at this. Even the big players like Youtube, TikTok etc needed a huge pile of money, investors and an unethical business model to succeed. And I’m pretty sure we don’t want that with PeerTube.

      I think what we currectly, realistically can do is have a few big content creators do it for fun. And host their stuff on PeerTube. But that needs some other motivation than making money.

      Ultimately, the majority of the worth or value of a platform like this isn’t in the program code. But in the content and userbase. And I think that’s where the focus needs to be when we want to grow or improve it for the potential users.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      For long-form video creators a Patreon like subscription service might work, but I very much agree with you that this is the main issue. Peertube works fine from the technical side of things.

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago
      1. Most people who submit videos do it because they enjoy it, not to start a career (or at least it doesn’t begin that way).
      2. Most creators at this point have sponsor-spots in their videos. That’s still monetization they control.
      3. Donations are a thing. Both to Framasoft (Peertube developers) as well as direct to the creators themselves. This still makes up a large portion of creator income.
      4. Personal sales. Lots of creators have their own products these days. Some of them are novel and others are high quality.
      5. Affiliate links to product promotions.

      Peertube makes it really easy to promote whatever you want in the “support” button.

      So really the only thing they’re missing out on is adsense. Which, fuck Google. And is only a small (but not insignificant) portion of their income.

    • StaticFalconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Peertube is perfect for those niche things that aren’t revenue friendly. Add in the creator needs to be big enough to be self sufficient from patreon, its the plateform that isnt limited by ad sense BS or what trendy shit is happening.