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YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Don't most YouTubers make more money with their own sponsorships than from YT ads? Can we start the mass migration to PeerTube already?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (10 children)

I don't think Peertube would handle mass migration of Youtube creators, unless each and every one of them set up their own instance.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I'd honestly be curious to see how that plays out. Every creator hosts their own content while strengthening and spreading the Peertube network.

I feel like that would quickly solidify it as a viable alternative.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Except content creators want to create content, not maintain an instance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Exactly. More work for likely less pay.

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

In time the technical knowledge requirements may be reduced. I could see a small company selling pre-setup media servers with a couple TB of storage. Just plug it in, load up your videos and your basically done.

And if you don't have comments/users, there is little that needs to be maintained.

It's not perfect, but there will eventually be a point where YouTube becomes so enshitified that people begin to switch to alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nah, your ISP doesn't give you enough bandwidth to host your own mini YouTube. You vastly underestimate the bandwidth required to run the service. It's massive, which is why PeerTube is having a hard time gaining traction.