Mastodawn

Many are asking me to put my videos on PeerTube, but every time I look at it, I see an overly technical user experience that I do not trust to take off.

What we need is for Mastodon to become a video platform, so THIS social medium which has now matured and people clearly love, gets robust video features.

You do not beat YouTube by making users jump through hoops to watch a video. You beat YouTube by making user sponsored creator videos turn up right in the Mastodon feed.

@anderspuck

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Wouter 🇳🇱🇧🇷🇧🇪1d ago

@randahl @anderspuck @Gargron I agree, I really like fediverse but PeerTube doesn’t work for me. There is almost no content that I want. The content that is there is not interesting for me. I like to see music videos but as even famous artist are not there, then I go to YouTube were everything is available.

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Anders Puck Nielsen 1d ago

@AccordingtoWouter @randahl @Gargron The biggest obstacle to PeerTube taking off for mainstream content is monetization. On YouTube these videos generate passive income, and publishing the same to PeerTube often seems like cannibalizing yourself as a content creator.

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Randahl Fink 1d ago

@anderspuck ⬆️ THIS! EXACTLY THIS! ⬆️

@AccordingtoWouter @Gargron

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Peter Ringholm

@randahl @anderspuck @AccordingtoWouter @Gargron

I depends on your niche and audience. A lot of YouTube creators do not meet the criteria for monetization.

I think the biggest problem for PeerTube is the myth of making money on YouTube.

My example; Small YT channel, not monetized. After I made the jump to Peertube in January, I actually made enough money by selling seeds to cover the microphone expense. The community is more supportive outside YouTube.

The whole "trying to game the algoritme" part of YouTube is destroying it - It gave us AI slob and clickbait.
After I started to publish to PeerTube, I feel a change in pride and joy in my videoes, hard to explain but I feel more free. Making something for others not for the algoritme.