@cliffwade Only 1 so far. I may create a few others though. #PeerTube for hiking/off-roading vids, #FunkWhale for some of my old music, #Calckey for a Masto alternative if feature and UI improvements stay dead in the water.
Realistically, smaller niche creators aren't making any reasonable income on YT via revenue sharing anyway. That's assuming they can even get over the initial monetization hurdles Google puts in place.
At the end of the day, just post your content to both. Pick a #PeerTube instance and then upload it to YT and mirror the content on PeerTube. Most people viewing content in the fediverse won't watch YT anyway, so they're not losing any audience.
I don't think it's enough. Smaller, more niche creators who don't post as often can't rely on subscribers' payments because they can't create enough content to attract subscribers.
There needs to be a platform-wide monetization solution for this, such as revenue sharing, which YouTube Premium offers to partnered channels.
After talking about it with my Patreon supporters, and here on Mastodon, I decided to stop publishing to Odysee. I wrote a short blog post about the reasons, and the options people have to keep watching outside of YouTube if they want to:
@thelinuxEXP#PeerTube is the only proper alternative to centralized platforms like YouTube IMO. The issue is, as always, how to fund these things properly... 🙃 But at least you can read up on an instance's rules, to see if they moderate away horrible things or not. And you can block instances you don't like.
So... anyone got any ideas how we can fund PeerTube, and possibly the larger Fediverse, in a fair way? 🤔
#PlasmaMobile news for April: 3 new #apps, PowerPlant, MarkNote, and OptiImage land in Plasma Mobile; Tokodon invites you to explore #Mastodon; NeoChat helps you organize events through #Matrix with #location sharing; and much, much more.
@kde Hi. Can Tokodon support #Peertube? I mean following, watching and commenting on channels/videos across different instances. Currently I think it only opens the Peertube link in the browser.
Everytime I go on Odysee, the content there seems to drift more and more towards conspiracy theories, complete disinformation and nonsense, or at worst ultra racist / xenophobic / hateful rethoric. The staff has a history of just saying amen to everything, including white supremacist stuff.
I’ve been thinking of abandoning it (I would keep PeerTube as the alternative to YouTube for people who really don’t want to use YT). Out of curiosity, a little poll about my content:
@thelinuxEXP I think we should differentiate between LBRY protocol and #Odysee as there are other instances and new ones can be set up. I'm sure not all #peertube instances host agreeable content.
@thelinuxEXP Odysee was something I was extremely suspicious about, their decentralization approach and other web3 stuff didn't exactly make me excited. This stuff that you just told however now marks the final straw for me :blobcatfluffangry:
I recommend those who use #Odysee to switch to #Peertube as that is compatible with the Fediverse and isn't shady about their practices (especially the staff...)
@thelinuxEXP
This is actually why I moved to watching you on #peertube instead - I love the idea behind #odysee, but unfortunately it does have aspects which appeal to that alt-right body of the internet searching for a platform because they were "silenced by the mainstream platforms"
@thelinuxEXP@personanongrata I mean, to play the “devil’s advocate”, there’s just as much toxic content on #YouTube … And if you include comments in that assessment, YouTube is actually probably worse than #Odysee (although I don’t have a #Google account, I can still see the comments). I love your content, but I’d need to take a closer look at #PeerTube to see if it’s actually worth opening yet another account somewhere (the last time I looked, it was a ghost town).
>spend a week making a song parody of old popular song
>upload it on youtube
>sorry, this video is blocked in USA, UK, Australia and 90% of all other countries
geez, thanks
@meljoann As I say, you'd need to find a #Peertube instance that federates with the channels you're interested in. You could even set up you're own.... but it would be easier to just build something that takes the RSS feeds that Peertube channels povide and use that instead...
So I just started using @tilvids and #PeerTube in general. I'm interested in tech (specifically), nature, gaming and pretty much anything that grabs my interest.
Does anyone have any recommendations for who to subscribe to?
That list is a good start. Use Sepia Search a good bit, and you'll find more stuff you like.
In general, most people on #PeerTube don't post as regularly, but you'll still find a lot of interesting one-off content and a decent number of regular uploaders.
Now here’s a #PeerTube instance that many of my #Blind mates may wish to jump on if wanting a platform for producing programming and/or Perusing podcasts, especially if you’re into #Audio content and want it among the #Fediverse!
Nature cam stream is up. There were wild turkeys earlier today.
I really like just playing the audio stream in rooms for background ambiance. Even when birds aren't on video, there's a lot of chirping! Much nicer than computer fans.