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.

  • Dusty@lemmy.dustybeer.comEnglish
    28·
    2 years ago

    I’ve looked at peertube a few times, and everytime I do, it seems to be filled with nothing but videos about the latest cryptoscamcoin. I have zero interest in that at all. Until they get content worth watching, it’s not going to happen.

    • grant 🍞@toast.oooEnglish
      17·
      2 years ago

      It’s the chicken & egg problem; people won’t use peertube because there’s no good content on there and content creators wont go there because the people aren’t there

      • palitu@lemmy.perthchat.orgEnglish
        7·
        2 years ago

        But they are also going to struggle to monetise their content.

        Does peer tube have monetisation features? Or would it all be sponsors, patreons and product placement?

      • AnagrammadiCodeina@feddit.itEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        Yes but it’s the creators that brings the people. YouTube worked because at the beginning it was the only place where you could upload videos and nobody was thinking about making a dime.

      • mim@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        That’s true.

        I use RSS feed to follow youtube channels, but if they happen to upload to odysee or peertube as well, I follow them there instead. Just to give a YouTube competitor a bit more traffic.