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PeerTube just reached its final goal for the mobile app fundraiser - 75k € - with a few hours to spare!
(support.joinpeertube.org)
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2025
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The problem is that it is just a fundamentally un-profitable platform for creators. Ads don't work (... period but also) because of the decentralized nature of it. Any instance/frontend that added ads would be shunned in favor of those who don't. And any video hosted only on a single "instance" would rapidly cost way too much if it ever became moderately popular.
Which means there is no reason for Content Creators to... care. So the best it can ever get is "early youtube". And people SAY they want early youtube videos but everyone is deeply spoiled by the difference between a video that was made in a week of after work tweaking versus weeks of full time planning and editing.
Which is why peertube in general is one of the "fediverse" products that... I feel really weird about. I forget if Floatplane/Weapons of Guntube/whatever use it or something they rolled themselves, but this really feels like the kind of software project that has the end state of getting "adopted" by a corporation and the major devs hired on as consultants.
Like, twitter (mastodon), reddit (lemmy), and even instagram (??) make sense to me and are very conducive to self hosting since... they are message boards and that is how we used to roll. But video is expensive and hard AND needs incentives to create "good" content for it.
not all of us care about profit. or at least not in the shove promotions in your face youtube status quo way.
And good for you.
But it is the fundamental issue with art. Art needs funding whether that is a patron or a tip jar or whatever. Canvas and paint costs money. Being able to spend an extra afternoon looking at a landscape costs money. Having time to edit and revise your script costs money. And so forth.
And same for youtube. It is the difference between being able to "get it right" versus just using the footage you have and "making it work". Hell, I love videos that explain how to do basic repairs that I should have learned long ago. And having the money to set up a free standing pipe or cut a bathtub spout in half works a lot better than trying to hold a camera to record yourself replacing a dishwasher airgap and not actually capturing where the clips were.
good for me, like i have money? assuming a lot bub
thanks for sharing about funding and youtube amd repairs. i agree, and you sound cool.
my point is that federated services should be source of truth, and that we can federate to corporate platforms as needed.
for example i use Discord cuz people are there. but i do important stuff in Matrix these days, and copy/paste to Discord as needed. that way we control our work and what is put into the Discord system instead of it being the default. this is my aspiration, migrations take a while.