I don’t really see how a youtube alternative could function without having a replacement for ad revenue. There are thousands of people making youtube content as full time jobs and small businesses… This doesn’t seem to solve that use case, which imo is the most important.
One example would be “mouse trap mondays” they review mousetraps by actually using them and setting up a motion camera. The channel owner clearly only does this to make money, there are millions of channel views, and yet there is no way to bypass advertiser censorship and content policy violation strikes have almost gotten the channel taken down.
Why should that have to be part of the media-distribution platform? Even now, while YouTube is still predominant, we see many YouTube content creators using external sites like Patreon to fund themselves more reliably that having to hope that your audience doesn’t use ad-blockers.
And even if this couldn’t be copied 1:1 from YouTube, it’s not even too much of a problem. The point isn’t to clone YouTube and with all it’s faults. The Ad-system incentivises click-bait videos, tabloid-esqe content, mass-producing “top 10” channels, etc. which I wouldn’t mind not having. There’s a reason I use uBlock to remove the suggested videos section, after all…
youtube’s content was arguably better before the partner program, albeit they didn’t have stuff like hot ones or that mouse trap review channel. at any rate i don’t think the use case of making youtube videos as a job is the most important, if that’s what you were saying.
youtube would still exist, just as tv still exists, but having a freer alternative where you can share videos in a setting without the influence of advertisers would be cool.
Well, embedded ads are most likely not going to be there, but sponsored content should still work just fine in PeerTube, right? Audible.com and Squarespace shoutouts don’t seem to be going nowhere in the near future.
I don’t really see how a youtube alternative could function without having a replacement for ad revenue. There are thousands of people making youtube content as full time jobs and small businesses… This doesn’t seem to solve that use case, which imo is the most important.
One example would be “mouse trap mondays” they review mousetraps by actually using them and setting up a motion camera. The channel owner clearly only does this to make money, there are millions of channel views, and yet there is no way to bypass advertiser censorship and content policy violation strikes have almost gotten the channel taken down.
Why should that have to be part of the media-distribution platform? Even now, while YouTube is still predominant, we see many YouTube content creators using external sites like Patreon to fund themselves more reliably that having to hope that your audience doesn’t use ad-blockers.
And even if this couldn’t be copied 1:1 from YouTube, it’s not even too much of a problem. The point isn’t to clone YouTube and with all it’s faults. The Ad-system incentivises click-bait videos, tabloid-esqe content, mass-producing “top 10” channels, etc. which I wouldn’t mind not having. There’s a reason I use uBlock to remove the suggested videos section, after all…
I said replace ad revenue, not implement ad revenue. Things like https://en.liberapay.com/ seem interesting, you are right there.
Oh, my bad ^^
I read this sentence, and immediately replied:
youtube’s content was arguably better before the partner program, albeit they didn’t have stuff like hot ones or that mouse trap review channel. at any rate i don’t think the use case of making youtube videos as a job is the most important, if that’s what you were saying.
youtube would still exist, just as tv still exists, but having a freer alternative where you can share videos in a setting without the influence of advertisers would be cool.
Yeah, If I was going to host a video for reasons other than profit, I would consider just setting an instance up.
Well, embedded ads are most likely not going to be there, but sponsored content should still work just fine in PeerTube, right? Audible.com and Squarespace shoutouts don’t seem to be going nowhere in the near future.
Ad revenue is so small for most YouTubers that they need to use other platforms anyway, and Liberapay will be very useful for PeerTube content makers.
wouldn’t this expose your IP address to everybody else watching the same video?
If it was the case it would still need some kind of TURN server, no?