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Hopefully it's time when PeerTube becomes more popular, like it happened (is happening) with Twitter and Mastodon.

• aaronharnly 3y ago
  There is a producer/consumer asymmetry here that I think limits the potential of this to prompt significant gains in PeerTube. ie video creators are less likely to be frustrated by an ad blocker blocker.
  • ta8645 3y ago
    More importantly, content creators get paid by Youtube.
    • fsflover 3y ago
      Popular creators can slowly move their audience to PeerTube by releasing videos on the latter a day earlier. AFAIK most of their income comes from sponsorship insets anyway.
      • ta8645 3y ago
        Youtube pays literally billions of dollars a year to content creators. That ads up after a while.
        • fsflover 3y ago
          I guess most of the money goes to top 5-10%.
• e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
  Genuinely asking, how do you expect peertube to serve terabits-petabits of video every day? Who's gonna pay for this? Bandwidth is not free, nor are servers; Mastodon works because text is relatively cheap to serve, but video is not.
  • fsflover 3y ago
    Nobody will need to serve terabits-petabits of video every day. PeerTube is distributed, and every instance only serves its own small share. There are already instances that take a small fee for usage, so you can be sure that they will not suddenly disappear. There are also paid Mastodon instances, and I recommend to use those, if you care about your account.