Randahl FinkSep 14, 2025

I feel extremely grateful today. In just 24 hours, my new video on the Ukraine war has had 9000 views.

I am not yet able to make a living on YouTube — far from it — but seeing the channel grow gives me a lot of hope for the future.

Thank you so much to everyone who shared, liked, and watched my content. You have made an important difference for me. ♥️

https://www.youtube.com/@randahlfink

Show threadThierry Van Kerm
@randahl the downside is that YouTube is owned by US fascists... It's hard to say on one hand 'let's boycott the US' and be happy being fed by them... Isn't there a way, a platform you could make money from without feeding the beast?
Sep 14, 2025 at 8:33pmMastodon for Android
Show threadRandahl FinkSep 14, 2025

@thierry_van_kerm not being all too impressed with YouTube being owned by Google, I did some thorough research and tested out a number of services. One option was Nebula, but they require that your content is recommended by an existing Nebula content creator. Then there is PeerTube, which quite many like, but they do not have a monetisation model.

So far I have put my videos on Patreon (also American), and later this year I will test Spotify Video which is Swedish.

See http://patreon.com/Randahl

Show threadThierry Van KermSep 15, 2025
@randahl what about substrack? Also American but people like Robert Reich use it to monetise their content...
Show threadRandahl FinkSep 15, 2025
@thierry_van_kerm I should definitely check that out. Thank you for reminding me.
Show threadThierry Van KermSep 15, 2025
@randahl substack not substrack as I mentioned. Bloody corrector 🙂