YouTube creators kicked off the platform for “repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies” will have an opportunity to “rejoin” in line with revised policies that allow “a wider range of content” on those subjects, its parent Alphabet told the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday. Issued in response to committee subpoenas in February 2023 and […]
At this point, the ethical thing to do is to reupload videos you like to Peertube. Sure it screws the creators, but that’s what they get for continuing to post on a fascist platform.
I get the sentiment. How should creators monetise on PeerTube, though? There are no ads, onboarding is a hassle, PeerTube itself pays nothing for content. Also, running a PeerTube instance is likely going to get expensive fast.
Patreon and merchant and whatnot, same as they do on YouTube already. It’s not as if the pittance Google pays is the majority of their income.
(Also, my comment was about random users uploading videos without the creators’ consent, so that’s really a different discussion.)
It’s built on bittorrent, you know. The more popular a video gets, the less you have to serve it yourself.