Shaka, when his videos were demonitized.
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2025
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Yes, it’s a shame he doesn’t seem to be considering PeerTube
Because it's not an alternative to people with YouTube as a job. It's great if you want to have a couple of videos hosted and watchable by others. There is no way to monetize them by their very definition and mission statement. Their own website says it was "created for non-commercial purposes". It's his job though, so he's not the target demographic.
You could integrate sponsors, which he doesn't do on YouTube either. Or redirect to patron or similar services.
There's also no (or very little) discoverable for people who watch sometime similar, which YouTube actually does extremely well. So how do you grow your audience?
If he only lives on Adsense, sure. But even then, if he posted to PeerTube as well, would he actually be missing out on Adsense money, considering the few viewers in PeerTube atm?
There is no way to monetize them by their very definition and mission statement.
There absolutely is:
- merch sales
- sponsorships
- donations
The only monetization you'd be missing out on is AdSense.
Their own website says it was "created for non-commercial purposes".
Who? Peertube? What it was created for doesn't matter when they don't run your channel.
Again, he doesn't do sponsorships and doesn't want to. Missing out on "only" AdSense is one of two revenue streams (the other being donations/patron).
And you're conveniently ignoring the other points about discoverability. There isn't any on peertube. So you can't even grow the last remaining revenue stream.
So what you meant to say was that he does not want to, not that it's impossible...?
He should continue on YouTube as he’s always done and then slowly build his presence on PeerTube.
Just because he starts also putting his videos on PeerTube, wouldn’t mean he suddenly lost all his viewers on YouTube.
@geerlingguy@mastodon.social needs to sync his content. It shouldn't cost him much (if anything). If he has viewers willing to watch him on peertube, but they simply can't and they are forced to watch him on youtube. You can't build viewers on peertube by waiting for others or not uploading it to it.
That's basically the case for everbody on youtube going "but there's nobody on peertube". Yeah, it'll probably stay that way if you don't upload to peertube. That's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
It shouldn't cost him much (if anything)
Probably wouldn't cost him anything, except opportunity cost and server resources, which both would probably be next to nothing considering the size of the userbase. But it's up to him if he wants to do that or not.
But it's up to him if he wants to do that or not.
That's a pleonasm. Of course he can decide whether he wants to be part of the solution or not.
Yeah...thats why I said that...
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