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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Seems unlikely that a creator would jump ship from a platform that pays them to a platform that doesn’t. That being said, lots of creators also constantly complain about demonetization, so maybe they’ll start to get fed up and move to purely in-video sponsorship things. Seems most likely from a creator that’s already on a platform like nebula

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most big youtubers have in-video ads now anyways. I'm not sure what the ratio of their revenue comes from youtube ads vs in-video ads, but youtube seems pretty trigger happy about demonetizing videos. Sometimes entire channels. If someone gets the majority of their revenue from other sources than youtube ads, I could see them migrating to something like peertube.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even with in-video ads, those must be paid based on historical (or actual?) view counts right? No matter how big you are, there's no way you're going to maintain view counts when switching away from YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That is quite true.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

you're definitely right on most points. but, to your point, if a creator was on a federated instance of peertube then they don't have to worry about the wishy-washy, everchanging rules of youtube :3

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I could see someone making some fork of peertube that helps creators get paid. May not be free but could get creators willing to join