Version 2 of the European app alternatives. Feel free to share it :)
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2025
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Yep, as it doesn't have a monetization incentive it will be never that appealing. There should be a way for authors to earn money.
It’s not about monetisation. It’s about audience. Who is going to bother to host an instance and post to a platform where the most popular videos only get 100 views?
monetizing life led to the shittiness. don't do it again.
It's true that the monetisation of everything is pretty awful, but it's one of the most important reasons to join a platform for content creators whether we like it or not.
The main reason to join a platform for a creator is the amount of the potential viewers, which of course don't increase much without new content creators. Therefore Peertube needs a secondary reason for creators to join, which it doesn't seem to have.
If anything, joining Peertube will in theory decrease their income, which actually gives them a reason to not join :(
at this point in my life, i just can't care about catering once again to capitalism. i'm basically out of that game and encourages others to do the same.
youtube worked because it was fun to make videos for each other as a community. that's what peertube brings back and i prefer it that way rather than the attention-addicted sickness it has become.
Can not agree more. When I open YouTube and see the amount of clickbait previews, badly cut and created content and just copies left n right I loose all interest
Monetizing leads to being able to pay bills. Don't you think authors deserve being paid for the content if they wish so? Besides Google managing of youtube is cause of shittiness. Personally I would be fine with a subscription as long as artists get most of it.
it doesn't need to be built in. there's already a section to add Support links.
How do support links work?
just external links to donate sites, patreons, Kofi, etc.
Yeah, that does not and will not work, at least not on scale. Think about an average user - do you think he/she will donate to each video he/she watches, perhaps on TV? But if the model is a subscription one (think Netflix, Tidal, Spotify, heck, perhaps even YouTube and so on, with amount being fairly distributed to authors), then it just might work.
cool, good luck with that. i'm happy the way it is.