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.

  • pdlrd://@terefere.euEnglish
    44·
    2 years ago

    The main thing here is that twitter and Reddit dont pay their popular users (massively followed accounts i mean), but YouTube does. As long as PeerTube won’t have a business modèle, and they’re never will because that’s mot what it was created for, i dont think there will be any migration

    • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.socialEnglish
      12·
      2 years ago

      This.

      YouTube and Twitch are in this same boat. The video format is a hugely lucrative one. Many people consume it passively, either in the background or while doing other things. The ad exposure is huge, and there’s a ton of value in having people invested in your platform, so financial incentives are high.

      There just aren’t enough people who are willing or able to put that much effort into making rich content for free, especia6when there’s a payed alternative

    • saigot@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Don’t most youtubers get their money from in video sponsorships these days?

      • pdlrd://@terefere.euEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, because sponsors are confident enough to trust a youtube-based audience. Good luck for PeerTubers to get sponsorships

        • saigot@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          These days it isn’t just a YouTube based audience. It’s YouTube and tiktok and Instagram etc etc. Sure exclusive peertubers won’t get sponsorships, but they don’t need to be exclusive, at first at least. peertube currently wouldn’t even factor in, but if it were to take off even moderately it could start to be part of the conversation.

          Every youtuber I follow has some contiginency for when the YouTube algorithm turns against them. Patreon, nebula, floatplane, podcasts the list goes on and on.

          The problem really is on the hosting side imo and I don’t think activitypub solves it the way it does for text based content.