Peertube

I'm going to copy a suggestion I made on their forum here:

Dear PeerTube team,

I’m writing to you because I’ve thought of a business move I think you should consider, and I’d be curious to hear your thoughts.

I follow several content creators on YouTube who have created their own, monetized streaming platform (Nebula) in order to escape Google’s monopolistic business model. While they are a community of creators and are forced to spend money on developing a streaming site, you have developed a streaming network and are trying to attract communities of creators. I’d like to suggest that you approach them and invite them to port their platform to the PeerTube network. Since building a realistic YouTube contender is in both of your interests, I expect they would be quite open to joining forces.

The only technical change needed to acommodate their needs would be to add into PeerTube the ability to paywall channels (Nebula is a paid subscription). While I understand that paywalls might be against the tastes of an open source platform, it would be a pragmatic move, as getting the Nebula content creators to move to PeerTube would benefit all parties:

1. The content creators from Nebula — by moving to PeerTube, would be spared the financial and logistical stress of maintaining their own video streaming website, and be freer to focus on creating content.

2. The PeerTube network — Would gain many new, non-technical viewers who are willing to pay for things (as they are all currently paying for Nebula). The viewers and their money would spill over to existing PT creators. What’s more, the Nebula youtubers who are already encouraging people to leave YouTube would now be doing your job of popularizing PeerTube for you.

3. Nebula viewers — would now have a wider choice of apps (PT clients) through which to watch their Nebula videos.

I would be curious to hear your thoughts.

Kind regards,