• Buelldozer
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    1329 days ago

    When are they moving all to freetube or something?

    Unless I’m missing something Freetube is a client. So it wouldn’t be Jeff moving to freetube it would be you using freetube to watch his content on YT.

    I’m guessing you meant peertube instead of freetube and your answer there is “When they can get paid.” Making content takes time and costs money and YT pays creators like Jeff for doing it.

    I dislike YT alot but there’s financial decisions at play here that can’t really be argued with.

      • Buelldozer
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        729 days ago

        I went over and looked at the peertube FAQ and nope, there’s no monetization plan. Their reasoning for that is consistent with their goals but it is a hurdle to creators moving to the platform.

    • ada
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      229 days ago

      It’s not one or the other though. Peertube with patreon can exist alongside YouTube

      • @stephen01king@lemmy.zip
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        128 days ago

        Patreon is just one source of income. Ad revenue is another. Its good to have more than one source if you wanna make a living with it.

        • ada
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          128 days ago

          That was my very point :)

            • ada
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              128 days ago

              It’s possible to post unlisted videos that are only visible to folk with the URL.

              Its good for folk who want to give their subscribers early access

                • ada
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                  128 days ago

                  It’s how Youtube does it…

                  • @stephen01king@lemmy.zip
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                    128 days ago

                    Wait, does it? I thought they have better integration with Patreon to determine if you have access to the video. I guess I never checked if I can still open YouTube videos of channels I’m no longer subscribed to on Patreon.

    • melroy
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      -229 days ago

      Ah yes peertube. There it goes wrong already. The name is too much alike.