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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    1 year ago

    First I’ve heard of alternatives to YouTube. Do they pay content creators the same or is it just people posting for free there?

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      1 year ago

      They are just offering the free service of video hosting. There are no advertisements and no paid accounts, so all they could share are costs, not income. They are not an advertisement/monetarization service.

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      1 year ago

      Each channel has a option to put your support information so people can pay you through patreon, etc. Peertube instances are offering their video hosting for free. You can put in video ads or patreon like services to enable payments. Peertube instances can ask for money as well to help with hosting costs. It’s the same business model as all other federated software. The cost of video hosting is distributed by instances and also uses bittorrent to help with sharing the load.

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        1 year ago

        So would it be feasible to run a peertube instance with content at sufficient scale, then inject and sell ads?

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          1 year ago

          I meant in video ads as in “this video is sponsored by…”. At least i think that’s the case. There is no built in way to have ads in peertube.