This guy has implemented a mind-boggling amount of features in these years basically all alone and funded with a modest tech salary.
Just goes to show how much potential small teams or even individuals have that gets wasted in big corpos.
Just goes to show how much potential small teams or even individuals have that gets wasted in big corpos.
The biggest issue with Peertube/Youtube is related to creators and how they get paid for content they create.
Youtube has an avenue for that to happen, and Peertube doesn't, or at least in a way that works.
Unless Peertube wants to just be "the place you host your videos from other platforms as a backup" something would have to be done.
The ones that do aren't surviving on YouTube ad revenue alone since the adpocalypse. They're doing so based on ad reads and crowdfunding, both of which work on Peertube just fine.
The only thing keeping them on YouTube is audience reach.
There are certainly plenty of stories of people who produce content funded directly by their audience, but none of them to match the money made by the top Youtubers.
I'm a bit glib here, but the distinction is actually important. The ad industry, in particular, tends to use "educate" when it means "influence."
But this isn't 15 years ago. There wasn't a huge player in this space when Youtube was getting started, but now there is. And now people know it's theoretically possible to make decent money creating content.
Self-hosting is still not quite as easy as it could have been, though.