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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[–] pfr@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I'm old enough to remember a time before YouTube. When YouTube started, it wasn't about making money. There were no ads. No subscriptions. No sponsors. In the early days of YouTube it was just backyard videos. But it didn't take long for the connect to start getting good because it was the first of its kind, and everyone started using it. The problem now is, to convince people to use something else that, essentially does the same thing, but doesn't make people money. Good luck with that.

Money corrupted YouTube. And now, the idea that people can be "content creators" for a living means that there will likely never be a mainstream, ad free, subscription free video platform, where people just make videos in their spare time. Peer tube is cool, but your not going to see high quality, curated content like you get on YouTube. An I think that's probably a good thing.

[–] artificialfish@programming.dev 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I remember it too. I just also remember how much of a quality improvement career YouTubers made. It’s still a good and valid thing imo, they make good videos for money. All platforms should facilitate that. Not facilitating that brings us back to an internet I honestly don’t think had a lot of value, just random family videos mostly.

With instance subscriptions you could cut out the huge cut Google takes and make creator unions essentially much easier to make.

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