Peertube

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A free software to take back control of your videos

Peertube is an open, federated alternative to Youtube without advertising or tracking. On this site, you can find a good Peertube instance, with good rules, good moderation and most importantly a friendly community.

https://joinpeertube.org/

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What's Stopping you from using PeerTube? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 month ago by rosahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/peertube@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/peertube@piefed.blahaj.zone/p/999813/what-s-stopping-you-from-using-peertube

Or 'What is PeerTube lacking that you simply cannot do without?'

I believe it's a safe assumption that fediverse users want to move away from the monopolies and closed gardens so often associated with video streaming, and yet it's not a task that's ever been made easy. Maybe an ounce of inspiration is the cue we need, and so my question to you is; What's Stopping you from using PeerTube?

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[–] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Exactly.

Lemmy is as good if not better than Reddit because it has just enough content..

Peertube clearly need to find a way to attract creators.

Maybe by paywalling some videos as I’d be happy to pay a reasonnable price to avoid YouTube.

[–] dragnucs@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, monetary insensitive is a good approach, that is how unknown platforms are gaining traction like kick for example.

[–] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

For a creator YouTube is kind of guaranteed money thanks to ads, even if it’s very little.

Because of the lack of paywall on Peertube, it’s either they get more money per subscriber than on YouTube because you support them through something like Patreon, or they get nothing because people are just watching videos for free without ads.

I guess most creators don’t even know about Peertube. One day, I’ll probably reach out to all YouTube creators I watch and tell them that I’d be willing to support them on Patreon if they posted on Peertube.

It’d be nice if Peertube then had easy explanations for a creator willing to make the move..