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TL;DR We don't need ads. There's a possibility to add donation links and the icon is then visible on every video. Patreon is big for a reason: people actually
by LockAndLol 6y ago
TL;DR We don't need ads.
There's a possibility to add donation links and the icon is then visible on every video. Patreon is big for a reason: people actually use it.
I'd rather donate to the content creators I want to see thrive than be bombarded with ads for things I don't want anyway.
The peertube devs refuse to incorporate monetization beyond donations, but they DO have a plugin system. It's not beyond imagination for someone (person or group) to add something like "paid scrobbling" where people add e.g 5€ on their account and then it's divided depending on certain criteria. That criteria could be for example:
- always give 50% to my subscriptions
- give the rest to creators of videos that I have watched which:
* have these tags
* are longer than 5 minutes
* and that I have watched at least 50% or 5 minutes of, which ever comes first
All of these would be opt-in or course to reduce the likelihood of uploaders artificially lengthening or shortening their videos (those magic 10 minutes on youtube), or trying to discover common user settings and tailoring their videos to fit those settings.
Tada. No ads, user-defined distribution of resources, yada yada.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoPatreon has its own issues. I wished it would be less dominant in the English-speaking donation 'market'. I was hoping that Flattr would be able to provide a Chromium-free, 'Brave-like' experience, especially with their browser plugin, but if anything it has been losing popularity (despite being years older than Patreon!). For a reason that escapes me, they even recently decided to officially remove their plugin, so now they can even hardly be differentiated from the other Patreon-likes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15557954 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15557954 https://github.com/flattr/flattr-extension/ https://github.com/flattr/flattr-extension/
- LockAndLol 6y agoSame. I was also hoping to find something that doesn't require me to have a credit card, only accepts USD, and *has* to go through a third party. Flattr uses credit cards exclusively, Liberapay only uses Stripe, Patreon a host of third parties but no direct transfers, and I have checked out the rest. Why can't I just transfer the amount I want, when I want, directly to another bank without an intermediary? I'm fine with the donation subscription service knowing how much and to whom I'm donating and taking out but why does it have to talk to so many other services I haven't picked or agreed to interact with?
- BlueTemplar 6y agoWell, transferring money worldwide is pretty hard – cryptocurrencies wouldn't have had the same popularity if it wasn't.
- Changaco 6y agoThere's no such thing as a direct transfer of virtual money. Just because you don't always see the intermediaries doesn't mean they aren't there.