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YouTube --> PeerTube Next? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

So Elon gutted Twitter, and people jumped ship to Mastodon. Now spez did... you know... and we're on Lemmy and Kbin. Can we have a YouTube to PeerTube exodus next? With the whole ad-pocalypse over there, seems like Google is itching for it.

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[-] abacusswitch@lemmy.film 2 points 1 year ago

Each channel has a option to put your support information so people can pay you through patreon, etc. Peertube instances are offering their video hosting for free. You can put in video ads or patreon like services to enable payments. Peertube instances can ask for money as well to help with hosting costs. It's the same business model as all other federated software. The cost of video hosting is distributed by instances and also uses bittorrent to help with sharing the load.

[-] fuser@quex.cc 1 points 1 year ago

So would it be feasible to run a peertube instance with content at sufficient scale, then inject and sell ads?

[-] abacusswitch@lemmy.film 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I meant in video ads as in "this video is sponsored by...". At least i think that's the case. There is no built in way to have ads in peertube. Everything would have to be supported by links to services like patreon. anyone doing what you said could be defederated.

[-] fuser@quex.cc 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I thought that's what you meant, but a model where the hosting instance provider splits the ad revenue with creators would be better than the monopoly.

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