I feel like it would be best to proxy YouTube, or subscribe to paid indie channels like nebula, but without a user base and without ad revenue or subscription revenue I don’t know how quality content can come to PeerTube. Maybe I’m just missing the content but when I’ve checked it’s all very low quality, just random unedited webcam vblogs mostly.

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Do some searching. There are lots of great channels. I've posted them the last 3 or 4 times this question was asked.

without ad revenue or subscription revenue I don’t know how quality content can come to PeerTube

AdSense makes up a relatively small portion of revenue for most creators. Their profit comes much more from:

Sponsor spots
Direct contributions
Merch/personal products

[–] artificialfish@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago

Good point about the other funding methods.

[–] amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

yeah this is a bit like musicians or authors complaining that nobody buys their CDs and hardcovers anymore.

YouTube can kick you to the curb just for saying fuck and demonetizing you

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, your preferred PeerTube instance can do the same. The major difference is there would probably be a human doing it.

[–] amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

totally, but nothing is stopping you from moving to another one while still having access to the protocol. or if you can afford it, starting your own

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Moving to another one that lacks the exposure of the one you were on. You could start your own but it wouldn't have the same traffic. It's the same problem, just on a smaller scale.

[–] amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

that's totally valid. I don't really use peertube and so my question is, since the program doesn't have that many users anyways, how many creators are relying on getting views from their own instance? I thought they just advertise their channel to outside platforms