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Are people blind on PeerTube? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I read many comments on how PeerTube isn't sustainable as a YouTube alternative and, while it's certainly true right now, are we sure it will be the same in the near future?

The platform is growing and the new mobile app is making great progress; I can certainly see some people investing in a major instance some day, accelerating the platform adoption.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It's not about adoption. It's about money.

Superfamousguy (a youtube user I just ficticiously created to represent every single big name youtuber) doesn't make videos in their room talking about whatever, and uploads whenever.

These guys have a strict schedule. They need to shoot today. Edit tonight, upload tomorrow exactly at 11am. Because their users are conditioned to expect those videos at those times. So they get sponsored, and now advertisers are promised an average viewcount on the dominant video platform at a certain time. They're paying superfamousguy money for those promises.

It's not a hobby, it's a job. And advertisers are not going to be willing to touch peertube because it's handled by so many fragmented cases that it's impossible for peertube to have the stability of youtube.

So, I'm not saying peertube can't grow. I'm just saying its decentralized nature will scare most advertisers away. Without the advertisers, superfamousguy can't make a living. And at that point it doesn't matter if peertube has twice as many viewers as youtube. Without money, these professionals cant fund their crew, they can't make videos, and thus stick to youtube.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago

Really, Google and Amazon are the only players large enough to make an alternative and host it.

Both companies should just be nationalized by their countries they have their HQ in, or globalized by the UN.

These are integral parts of our world and society, we shouldn't allow them to be owned and controlled by private intrests.