cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/5294605

Youtube, for so many years, was just too good. Yes, they changed the 5 star rating system to likes and dislikes and a few years later disabled dislikes altogether, but their algorithm mostly digs up interesting content and it just works for creators and viewers.

This might change soon. Their new strategy to disallow ad-blockers will frustrate a certain kind of viewer. Those who dislike surveillance and like open-source tech, those who use uBlock Origin and know why.

Just like a few years ago mastodon suddenly reached a certain kind of popularity, because twitter had their first big fuckup, maybe Peertube is next. It certainly is the most polished decentralized solution that doesn’t use a blockchain. Creators or fans could easily host their own videos, fans can watch it, without ads.

  • @onlinepersonaEnglish
    12•6 months ago

    Two tings it needs:

    • Support for third party peering clients: if somebody wants to help out a server with bandwidth, currently the only option is to install peertube
    • Monetisation: content creators need to get paid somehow. The only instance (I know of) that does so uses crypto and it’s https://beetoons.tv/

    Maybe if content creators themselves decide to invest in peertube and/or its plugins to implement the parts that they need, then they’ll switch and peertube will suddenly become popular, but at the moment I just don’t see it.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•6 months ago

      How much do you tube contributors actually make though?

      Whats the average payout to the top 10%,20%,30%,40%,50%,70%?

      My guess is 80%+ of contributors make a pittance, perhaps a few dollars a month if Pareto is consistent across most subjects, which it seems to be.

      But youtube still makes a lot from them because it makes it seem like there’s gobs of content. I really don’t use YouTube, because most of the videos that show up as “you may like this” that are 30 minutes to explain 2 sentences worth of info. There are specific video producers who I go to watch, and pretty much nothing else.