After a lot of work, we're happy to announce the #PeerTube Android application is available on #fdroid 🎉 :peertube:
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.framasoft.peertube/
Yeah, I don’t think so either. For lots of creators, YouTube is about earning money with ad revenue with their videos. And the audience comes to watch their videos. So unless we introduce lots of ads to PeerTube and pay the creators, it won’t become an alternative to Youtube (in specific).
I think Peertube will stay it’s own thing and not become a clone of Youtube. And as such it’ll always target a different audience and have different content available. So it can’t really become an “alternative”.
Sure. I just think at that point it’s no longer a “alternative to YouTube” since YT works a certain way and this changes quite a lot about the dynamics. It’d be more an alternative to something else, just not YouTube.
That’s fair, but the number one complaint about YouTube is the ads, and I do think content creators deserve to be compensated for their time. Perhaps a way within Peertube to donate to the creator?
Yeah, I don’t think so either. For lots of creators, YouTube is about earning money with ad revenue with their videos. And the audience comes to watch their videos. So unless we introduce lots of ads to PeerTube and pay the creators, it won’t become an alternative to Youtube (in specific).
I think Peertube will stay it’s own thing and not become a clone of Youtube. And as such it’ll always target a different audience and have different content available. So it can’t really become an “alternative”.
If you watch anyone who actually discloses their income, adsense is usually a fairly small %.
Most of it comes from donations, direct sales, product placements, etc.
There’s always the support via Patreon route.
Sure. I just think at that point it’s no longer a “alternative to YouTube” since YT works a certain way and this changes quite a lot about the dynamics. It’d be more an alternative to something else, just not YouTube.
That’s fair, but the number one complaint about YouTube is the ads, and I do think content creators deserve to be compensated for their time. Perhaps a way within Peertube to donate to the creator?