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I doubt YouTube would ever have been successful if it had required this level of explanation.
The fact that there is an entire Medium article on how to "get started" essentially guarantees it's a non starter.
Case in point: "Recipe: Medium-Boiled Eggs" https://medium.com/@corey_nelson/recipe-medium-boiled-eggs-7...
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Or the lack of anyway to monetize your content other than link to a method for accepting donations.
All (well, almost all) the videoblogging in China is monetized by direct donations.
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All (well, almost all) the videoblogging in China is monetized by direct donations.
Which payment processors do they use? Is it managed by the video hosting platform or a direct transfer via e.g. WeChat Pay/Alipay?
Maybe there is some sort of business case, or at least some preliminary solution to get there, that offers a middle ground between "you're only the customer of our SaaS" and "you have to be your own IT department"? something like a standardized cloud-ready deployment, where instead of only d/l the server side app, the site also points you to the cloud providers that also support that app (or this standard) so that you're just 3 clicks away from running your own instance.
That'd be nice, not sure it would pay for the team developing that standard though.
Sadly all of those decentralized / federated app all have this same accessibility issue. Maybe there is some sort of business case, or at least some preliminary solution to get there, that offers a middle ground between "you're only the customer of our SaaS" and "you have to be your own IT department"? something like a standardized cloud-ready deployment, where instead of only d/l the server side app, the site also p…
binder is kinda similar for python jupyter notebooks
https://www.digitalocean.com/products/one-click-apps/
https://blog.heroku.com/heroku-button
edit: after looking at the github, they actually have this with YunoHost (whatever that is): https://install-app.yunohost.org/?app=peertube
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Content creators on PeerTube could do in-video product endorsements.. that's already a fairly standard practice on YouTube, which does support monetization.
It's a bit of chicken and egg problem though. To get in video endorsements, you need to get very popular. To get very popular, you need a more popular platform than peertube.
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Or the lack of anyway to monetize your content other than link to a method for accepting donations.
Content creators on PeerTube could do in-video product endorsements.. that's already a fairly standard practice on YouTube, which does support monetization.
The only thing I got from reading this write up is that it will be pretty easy for someone to create their own instance and throw ads on someone else's content.