I publish some short videos from time to time. Watching a train, my cat or something else, the whole world should know. 😄

So i selfhost my own peertube-instance.

The main reason os, to know how this works to selfhost such an instance. Because i want to have the knowledge for. I believe in the future of this platform.

And i use my peertube to make copies from youtube videos i want to have, in case they disappear from yt for some reason. Just to build my own comfortable videothek. Most of my videos are "internal" or "unlisted" in case of copyright-violences.

Monetizing videoviews... hmmm... i know, creators get a life from ads... but i hate advertisings. I really hate them. And i think, if someone wsnt to life from creating content, they should place products. Srlfmade ad, reading a text, marked as ad... such as many creators do this. Get paid per video/ad, not per view.

Streaming always comes from the original instance. (I know, p2p and assist hosting) so... if a creator hosts its own peertube, he gets the WHOLE amount of his sponsoring. For his work and for his hosting-costs too.

Its another way of getting money. Creators have to learn a bit more than producing a video, upload it and so on. But hosting a peertube is not that difficult.

Maybe is a managed service, a "one-click-hosting" the future for peertube. Just bring up a whole instance as easy as create a new YT-Channel... like hetzner do it with nextcloud (shared storage).