I feel like it would be best to proxy YouTube, or subscribe to paid indie channels like nebula, but without a user base and without ad revenue or subscription revenue I don’t know how quality content can come to PeerTube. Maybe I’m just missing the content but when I’ve checked it’s all very low quality, just random unedited webcam vblogs mostly.
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I’ve found better stuff by asking around for good channels, or learning that folks I follow have made a peertube channel, than I have by trying to use the interface. The discovery isn’t especially good.
There are only a couple decent channels I’ve watched but I get the honest impression there are more, they’re just burried in stuff. Also depends what you’re looking for. There are far more Foss youtubers who mirror over there and make decently high quality stuff than is available for a a lot of other genres of video
There definitely isn’t much, but I think there’s potentially more than is immediately obvious
No good content??? My man!!! Have you not heard of Nicole??? The fediverse chick!!! Watch as she mindlessly smokes a cigerette as she stares blankly at her monitor.
Or you could try Veronica, as she uploads several videos every minute. All about Linux. Nobody knows how she does it…
In all honesty I don’t understand how PeerTube is supposed to scale with users once it gets content. Hosting, transcoding and streaming video is super expensive. There’s also a matter of making money from videos and without financial incentive it’ll be hard to compete with commercial solutions (in a capitalist hellholes that most of us live in). Community funding can keep up with hosting text but can barely keep up with hosting pictures, let alone something more, unless you’re an internet archive or something.
People who are on Nebula already made it in Youtube and they’re so big that they just want to make more money. They provide nice service for the money but I don’t think they will come support your revolution for free.
Peertube allegedly uses p2p networking that runs in your browser to serve videos. It’s open source but when I tried to actually read up on the protocol large parts of the docs were in french
I think it’s basically just bittorrent.
People who are on Nebula already made it in Youtube and they’re so big that they just want to make more money.
Nebula is a gated community for YouTubers who have already made it. They have no avenue for adding more users, like the wealth of good indie YouTubers that are up and coming, and they don’t even seem to want to add to their own curated list themselves. Their community has been stagnated for years. All they have done is forced their current membership to constantly advertise for them on YouTube.
Nebula is not the answer and never will be. I don’t even see a point in going there, because I already have these same channels on YouTube.
I didn’t mean Nebula would be the answer but many Nebulas that would do better or worse based on their own decisions rather than everyone being beholden to a single corporate overlord.
I know nebula creators aren’t supporting any kind of revolution but they are creating their own coop and I commend them for that. All workers should. Maybe just an oss tool to get communities like them started for groups that want to form coops.
In that idea what we need is a built in interface for sponsorship, tipping, and paid subscriptions, built into PeerTube. They could have subscriptions on the instance itself or the channel.
I know of at least one. The channel is called The Linux Experiment.
@thelinuxexperiment_channel@tilvids.com
I enjoy his content a lot and really appreciate the fact that hés putting his content on peertube.
I hope people enjoying Peertube are supporting the project and creators financially. Otherwise it won’t have any future sadly.
Well, like all of the fediverse. It’s a bunch of volunteers who run the instances out of pocket. They need donations to keep going.
Do some searching. There are lots of great channels. I’ve posted them the last 3 or 4 times this question was asked.
without ad revenue or subscription revenue I don’t know how quality content can come to PeerTube
AdSense makes up a relatively small portion of revenue for most creators. Their profit comes much more from:
- Sponsor spots
- Direct contributions
- Merch/personal products
Good point about the other funding methods.
I’m old enough to remember a time before YouTube. When YouTube started, it wasn’t about making money. There were no ads. No subscriptions. No sponsors. In the early days of YouTube it was just backyard videos. But it didn’t take long for the connect to start getting good because it was the first of its kind, and everyone started using it. The problem now is, to convince people to use something else that, essentially does the same thing, but doesn’t make people money. Good luck with that.
Money corrupted YouTube. And now, the idea that people can be “content creators” for a living means that there will likely never be a mainstream, ad free, subscription free video platform, where people just make videos in their spare time. Peer tube is cool, but your not going to see high quality, curated content like you get on YouTube. An I think that’s probably a good thing.
I remember it too. I just also remember how much of a quality improvement career YouTubers made. It’s still a good and valid thing imo, they make good videos for money. All platforms should facilitate that. Not facilitating that brings us back to an internet I honestly don’t think had a lot of value, just random family videos mostly.
With instance subscriptions you could cut out the huge cut Google takes and make creator unions essentially much easier to make.
YouTube was founded by 3 former PayPal employees and bought by Google for $1.65 billion just over a year after its creation. It launched its partner program in 2007 which is when people could start directly making money from the site - but for most big people on the platform, making money was the eventual goal anyway. There was always a plan for YouTube to make oodles of cash and for people to make money making videos on it.
If PeerTube doesn’t have some type of monetary incentive, nobody except for mild hobbyists making subpar content are going to migrate over.
I like that YouTube has higher quality content now and I don’t mind that creators expect to be compensated for what is now much more work. I do mind that YouTube treats them like second class citizens and can take however much of the pie they can get away with.
I loved the early days of youtube. Brought us such gems as Chicken Police and Crazy Rainbow Lady.
I haven’t checked it out yet, but the same could be said about the early days of YouTube. Professional cameras weren’t that common for the first years of it.
Yeah but that’s not the case for almost any other brand new video sharing platform. Because now people know how to content create. But they need to make money.
Yeah that’s pretty much my take.
It sucks that content creators are fixated on advertising revenue or whatever they get from subscriptions.
Time Team is doing really well with patreon by offering exclusive content there.
I personally am not really sure that the peer to peer bandwidth model for peertube is the right way to go. I’m also certain that peertube is a terrible name.
I think something federated with channels providing their own bandwidth but discoverable from other instances might be the way to go.
Am I allowed to throw my hat in the ring? I’m definitely No expert and I’m constantly learning, but I have vods of my live streams, gaming and tech, and I’m running Fireside Fedi a show about talking with different folks around the Fediverse. Let me know if I can post the link. I don’t want to self promote of that’s not what folks are looking for here.
Aldo I would say that we’re still very early in the Fediverse life cycle. Majority of these folks aren’t paid or are a shoestring budget and solo with tiny teams. So if we want to see this experiment survive we have to do more than what we’ve done in the past.
Talk to content creators you enjoy. Let them know you’d like to see their content on the Fediverse. Especially if you’re a patreon member. Create content yourself. The Fediverse will succeed or fail based on our actions.
The internet wasn’t born in a day and a LOT of projects failed, because everyone took the easy centralized way. This time we have to fight for it to remove their claws.
Let me know if I can post the link. I don’t want to self promote of that’s not what folks are looking for here.
Go for it.
Space Quest Historian, for adventure games https://spectra.video/c/spacequesthistorian/videos
Who’s also got two active channels on YT.
Yes but good luck finding it.
This is what has stopped me from switching to Peertube.
Nebula is pretty good, though alot of it just doesn’t interest me. I find it’s more affordable and feel the handful of creators I follow there are worth the cost.
As much as I want to switch away from YouTube, it’s my main source of entertainment and I don’t see the creators I follow switching to any other platforms anytime soon.
The linux experiment is great
There’s a couple youtubers that mirror their content on PeerTube. The Giddy Stitcher for example uploads to Makertube.net
Youtube was known for hosting pirated content in the early days to attract people
