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Re: PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform

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Post by lanthissa »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #151
djaro wrote: post #41

As a professional YouTuber, the main issue I instantly see with this is the lack of monetization. I think people who don't make videos for a living severely underestimate how expensive it is to produce high-quality videos people want to watch. This isn't like writing a tweet or even posting a picture on Instagram. Even a decent 20-minute video can easily take 40 man-hours of high-skilled labor. I have a pretty small…

"As a professional YouTuber, the main issue I instantly see with this is lack of monetization." As a computer user I see that as the main advantage No third party intermediary No advertising Computer users need peer-to-peer options for sharing video with each other that do not use third party advertising companies, e.g., posing as "search engine" or "social media", to transfer the bits Whether PeerTube works well, I…

the 3rd party isn't an intermediary, youtube content is fantastic because it found a way to pay people to produce something for every niche, and reward the ones doing well with more viewers and more money.

ofc you would prefer high quality content delivered directly to you for free, because you're ignore the producers perspective.

Re: PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform

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Post by frollogaston »

CM30 wrote: post #15

It's a promising system, and I'd probably use it over a non-federated video hosting system if I wanted to run a video hosting site of some kind. Yet it's currently hard to find a real usecase for it, since neither the content you want nor audience is there on PeerTube at the moment. If you're interested in open source software or data privacy you might find something here or there, but topics like gaming, music, spor…

Supposedly there's a button to wholesale import your YouTube channel to PeerTube and keep syncing after, wonder if that's easy/reliable enough for people to do it just cause.

Re: PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform

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Post by ndriscoll »

ShinyLeftPad wrote: post #146
BrenBarn wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> As a professional YouTuber, the main issue I instantly see with this is the lack of monetization. As a video watcher, the main issue I have with YouTube is the presence of monetization.

Because people are expected to spend their time, effort and money to provide content for you for free, of course. Seems like the only explanation.

They're not. No one asked OP to use peertube. This is software for people who want to share videos. Coming in and declaring you won't use it because you can't make money from your videos should just get an "okay?" Interjecting into a FOSS space and complaining they are not paying you is beyond bizarre. Doubling down when people basically say "actually I'm specifically looking for non-commercial groups, so your absence is appreciated" is crazy.

If you want to make money in something, you're not part of the group who doesn't. There's already a giant platform for you. Why would you say hobbyists are entitled?

Re: PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform

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Post by carlosjobim »

treesknees wrote: post #95
ndriscoll wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't have to be for your use-case. e.g. KDE has their own instance, as does Blender. It would perhaps be a good fit for MIT to host their OCW videos, or for Khan Academy to host their material, or people sharing conference talks, or governments, or quick home DIY videos, or vlogs and idle musings, or hobbyists showing/discussing their thing they like, etc. Videos that are meant to help people to better themselv…

There are many people who believe everything must be a grind to get rich. I wish more people stepped back and did things online because they were fun or educational, not because it was monetized.

Anything and everything starts costing money when done at a high level. And since you have dedicate yourself full time if you want to be among the best at what you do, you're also forfeiting other sources of income. So you need to make money on your craft. It's not necessarily about getting rich, but getting by.

And there is no audience interested in seeing average things online.

Re: PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform

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Post by sillyfluke »

dinkleberg wrote: post #162
roadside_picnic wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Yet those 2-3M channels get the lions share of the views. ...because they're directly tied to YouTube own revenue. As someone who creates a fair bit of content, and am fortunate enough not to have to worry about the revenue from that, I deliberately try to minimize monetization because it ultimately becomes the main driving force behind your content creation. Monetization as the only model for content creation lead…

No, it is because that is the content that people want to watch . I too create content that has been widely watched and don't include video ads or any of the other monetization features they push. But I create videos because I want people to watch them. I don't do it for the sake of myself and pushing it out into the void. I don't follow whatever the trends are, I create what I believe will be the most useful as I ma…

>No, it is because that is the content that people want to watch.

No, that's not a given. It would be more accurate to say it is content people will watch, and not necessarily want to watch. I mean people will watch porn, I'm not sure they want to watch porn.

If you asked someone before vine or tiktok whether you wanted to watch an unending carousel of thirty second videos from nobodies for four hours straight I'm not sure a lot of people would say yes.

Am I the only one who sees ragebait titles to youtube videos that do not contain a modicrum of the rage that is advertised in the title?

I don't think we need to conflate algorithmic nudging with the conscience preference of the user frankly.

Re: PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform

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Post by lanthissa »

alex1138 wrote: post #167
lanthissa wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this is exactly right, people dont realize that they're getting a great deal on youtube. if you want to disrupt youtube you need to do it by winning over the creators which is a difficult thing to do since no new platform can subsidize to the scale of what youtube offers already due to its size, the only ones who really could are meta since they have the ad network and users already to funnel to it, or another compan…

Great deal except when you get demonetized for partisan reasons

demonization has nothing to do with viewers value from youtube you just have been radicalized to inject talking points into every single conversation.

Re: PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform

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Post by dvngnt_ »

djaro wrote: post #41

As a professional YouTuber, the main issue I instantly see with this is the lack of monetization. I think people who don't make videos for a living severely underestimate how expensive it is to produce high-quality videos people want to watch. This isn't like writing a tweet or even posting a picture on Instagram. Even a decent 20-minute video can easily take 40 man-hours of high-skilled labor. I have a pretty small…

I use adblocker for youtube but will still subscribe via pateron

Re: PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform

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Post by dvngnt_ »

raphinou wrote: post #14

I am currently recording tutorial videos for an open source project. It's produced fully with Foss software (on Linux, obs, kdenlive) and about an open source project, so I wanted to host it with peertube (though YouTube might be used later on for its network effect, it was easier to publish with peertube as yt required an video of me and my ID). It's going fine until now. I don't host peertube myself though, I use a…

With adblocker enabled: error loading dynamically imported module: https://exquisite.tube/client/standalone/videos/assets/peert...

Re: PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform

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Post by dvngnt_ »

dvngnt_ wrote: post #179
raphinou wrote: post #14

I am currently recording tutorial videos for an open source project. It's produced fully with Foss software (on Linux, obs, kdenlive) and about an open source project, so I wanted to host it with peertube (though YouTube might be used later on for its network effect, it was easier to publish with peertube as yt required an video of me and my ID). It's going fine until now. I don't host peertube myself though, I use a…

With adblocker enabled: error loading dynamically imported module: https://exquisite.tube/client/standalone/videos/assets/peert...

Toggling ubo allowed the videos the load
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