Back when I first started posting videos, I used Vimeo. Even though YouTube was the dominant video site, I wanted to support the underdog. I even bought a Vimeo Pro account. At the time, Vimeo had higher quality video than YouTube, but nowhere near the level of discoverability. Eventually I started posting on YouTube; both new content and some reposts of my older videos. It’s 2020 and YouTube, as well as the rest of big tech, is continuing to remove content they don’t agree with from their platforms. None of my videos have ever gotten a large number of views, and none are monetized, so I might as well copy them to a PeerTube instance I control. If you do run a YouTube channel with any type of significant viewership, I highly recommend backing up your videos, in the event you may need to self-host your content in the future.
Good advice, but of course not everyone has the technological acumen to do this.
> Good advice, but of course not everyone has the technological acumen to do this.
In that case, of course, said youtuber could hire someone to do it.
http://watchnebula.com exists which is a whole bunch of tech & educational Youtubers offer their content for a small fee, obviously without ads.
I hope it catches on. I dislike how youtube never suggests esoteric or ufo-related videos, even if you had search about it in the past and it’s obvious you are interested about it. They are not removing the videos, but they are silently mistreating them.
However, without the ability to monetize EASILY in that new platform, the big YT creators won’t follow up, and as such, this won’t catch on. And looking at Peertube’s roadmap, there’s not a word about monetization.
Weird, I get suggested a bunch of videos about giants and I don’t stay logged in, nor have I even reallt looked into that. But I watch weird things like UFOs and Ancient Civilization stuff and it shows up as recommended videos.
> And looking at Peertube’s roadmap, there’s not a word about monetization.
That is not the point of the project at all, it is about freedom and control. I guess that one would use a Patreon or Tipeee for monetization. But like many people say, YouTube monetization is an opaque, underhanded and cut-throat experience. Unless you are already a YouTube celebrity, you will never get by with YouTube unless you make promotional videos or you are sponsored. And you can always have your video took down by a false DMCA takedown.
LBRY might be the best running alternative with monetization right now.
I think on Youtube most have gone with something like Patreon or even OnlyFans right now instead of ad revenue only.
2020-08-21 9:51 pm
“Eugenia Loli
I hope it catches on. I dislike how youtube never suggests esoteric or ufo-related videos, even if you had search about it in the past and it’s obvious you are interested about it. They are not removing the videos, but they are silently mistreating them.
However, without the ability to monetize EASILY in that new platform, the big YT creators won’t follow up, and as such, this won’t catch on. And looking at Peertube’s roadmap, there’s not a word about monetization.”
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And there shouldn’t be,since PeerTube it seems wasn’t created for people to leech of from in this manner. This was the major Mistake Youtube made and they should’ve seriously addressed the issue when it first reared it’s head instead of looking the other way until it came to bite them in the ass and were forced then to seriously address it.
“I highly recommend backing up your videos, in the event you may need to self-host your content in the future.”
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You should be doing this to begin with,instead of expecting Youtube or other places to do it for you.
> You should be doing this to begin with
I would *never* upload anything to the cloud without having a local backup.. But then, I started using Macs in the era of Hypercard, when “cloud” meant that big glob of water vapor floating a thousand-odd meters up..
I can’t think of a single popular app that began with users quickly monetizing content. What new apps need are ease of use and something new, some twist that makes them compelling. Political benefits are a nonfactor for most people.
Youtube blew up because people could easily share youtube clips, often of old content that was not otherwise accessible. What makes peertube compelling? And is it as easy as sharing a link?
Less discoverability …
Could that be because the major search engine owns YouTube?
“2020-08-23 4:26 pm
Matthew Smith
Less discoverability …
Could that be because the major search engine owns YouTube?”
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So what? If they don’t want *YOUR* content or presence on equipment *THEY* own and maintain,they have every right not to
Get over it.,
yoko-t,
I’d normally agree with this, but as people become increasingly dependent on platforms that are defacto standards in the industry, the ability to practice first amendment rights becomes increasingly threatened by corporate censorship. I hate that this is the case, but there are friends and family that I genuinely cannot reach outside of proprietary services. At least with federated networks like email and telephone, we are not so dependent on a single company, but virtually all new forms of communications are happening under centralized control and authority. The more dominant a communication medium becomes, the more trouble it posses for civil rights when that medium is censored.
Ideally our social networks would be smaller and federated, but since that’s not happening how do we cope with the reality that corporate censorship can be used to stifle first amendment rights?
There’s also DTube
https://d.tube/