Fediverse

In all honesty I don’t understand how PeerTube is supposed to scale with users once it gets content. Hosting, transcoding and streaming video is super expensive. There’s also a matter of making money from videos and without financial incentive it’ll be hard to compete with commercial solutions (in a capitalist hellholes that most of us live in). Community funding can keep up with hosting text but can barely keep up with hosting pictures, let alone something more, unless you’re an internet archive or something.

People who are on Nebula already made it in Youtube and they’re so big that they just want to make more money. They provide nice service for the money but I don’t think they will come support your revolution for free.

Take a look at the pinned post at [email protected] and also check out PeerTube.wtf/home for a list as well.

There’s plenty of channels to follow, but obviously not the same amount of content like on YouTube.

I have some favorites

• https://makertube.net/accounts/michellemay about stichong, sewing etc

• https://subscribeto.me/accounts/gbryant technology and videogames

• https://video.canadiancivil.com/accounts/shifter active mobility and biking

Do some searching. There are lots of great channels. I've posted them the last 3 or 4 times this question was asked.

without ad revenue or subscription revenue I don’t know how quality content can come to PeerTube

AdSense makes up a relatively small portion of revenue for most creators. Their profit comes much more from:

• Sponsor spots
• Direct contributions
• Merch/personal products

No.

No good content??? My man!!! Have you not heard of Nicole??? The fediverse chick!!! Watch as she mindlessly smokes a cigerette as she stares blankly at her monitor.

Or you could try Veronica, as she uploads several videos every minute. All about Linux. Nobody knows how she does it....

Space Quest Historian, for adventure games https://spectra.video/c/spacequesthistorian/videos

There's some good channels on TILVids and Kolektiva.media, and if you're looking for something specific, Sepiasearch is able to search across all peertube instances.

Yeah that's pretty much my take.

It sucks that content creators are fixated on advertising revenue or whatever they get from subscriptions.

Time Team is doing really well with patreon by offering exclusive content there.

I personally am not really sure that the peer to peer bandwidth model for peertube is the right way to go. I'm also certain that peertube is a terrible name.

I think something federated with channels providing their own bandwidth but discoverable from other instances might be the way to go.

I've found better stuff by asking around for good channels, or learning that folks I follow have made a peertube channel, than I have by trying to use the interface. The discovery isn't especially good.

There are only a couple decent channels I've watched but I get the honest impression there are more, they're just burried in stuff. Also depends what you're looking for. There are far more Foss youtubers who mirror over there and make decently high quality stuff than is available for a a lot of other genres of video

There definitely isn't much, but I think there's potentially more than is immediately obvious

I haven’t checked it out yet, but the same could be said about the early days of YouTube. Professional cameras weren’t that common for the first years of it.