With Alphabet taking a hard stance against adblockers I’m wondering if devs are starting to put some focus on PeerTube? It could use some TLC. I feel like it’s a sleeping giant of the Fediverse.

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    1 year ago

    I’d really love if PeerTube could become a standard, but it needs a catalogue of back content, better discoverability, and most of all, to offer financial incentive to move over. As much as I hate to say it, I think something crypto backed like odysee/lbry is more likely to become major.
    There’s no payout for putting videos on peertube, and there’s not enough audience to get sponsorships. If you really want to make peertube a success, that’s where it has to start. No amount of technology will make people go from making some money to making none money.

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      1 year ago

      The whole landscape changes, of course, when Youtube gets put behind a paywall or goes under. This is a when, and not an if situation; video streaming with perpetual archival is not a working business model, and YouTube’s never churned out a profit in the 18 years its been online. But twitch and tiktok will likely be where creators move to. I don’t see large swaths of people moving to even odysee in the current online climate.