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I recently started running a peertube instance at https://battlepenguin.video https://battlepenguin.video I don't have a lot of stuff on YouTube/Vimeo and none
by djsumdog 6y ago
I recently started running a peertube instance at https://battlepenguin.video https://battlepenguin.video I don't have a lot of stuff on YouTube/Vimeo and none of it has ever gotten a lot of views, but I am in the process of uploading old videos to my peertube instance and changing all the embed blocks on my website to show my peertube video instead and just have YouTube and Viemo below it as Links under a section labelled "Mirrors" on each of those posts.
For big content creators that depend on the ad revenue, I realize it really isn't practical to mirror everything on PeerTube. Even if you know how to run your own peertube server and keep up with security updates, now you're eating into your own ad revenue (with the advantage of keeping your videos online in case the YouTube robots and/or gods decide to take down your channel).
It's a double edge sword, but I hope more content creators will mirror their videos on services they pay for and have more control over.
- _curious_ 6y ago"I hope more content creators will mirror their videos on services they pay for and have more control over." I think this is the key...using the YT up/until you no longer can and then (presumably once an audience is present) reverting to your backups/hosting and going 'indy'.
- joedevon 6y agoOr retain shorter, teaser content on YT for marketing and a link to the full content on your main platform.
- giantrobot 6y agoThen YouTube just downranks your teaser content and you end up effectively invisible.