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PeerTube just reached its final goal for the mobile app fundraiser - 75k € - with a few hours to spare!
(support.joinpeertube.org)
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2025
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PeerTube needs content more than it needs anything else. There's no reason to use a mobile app if there is nothing to watch on it anyway.
It's a chicken and egg issue. Nobody will create content on a platform with inferior usability.
Hard to capture that lightning
It's a chicken and egg issue for sure, but I think you've got the wrong egg.
Nobody will create content on a platform with few viewers. Nobody will be a viewer on a platform with few content creators.
I think they need an application that simultaneously posts to YouTube and PeerTube. So creators can effortlessly post to both the existing platform with all the viewers while also adding content to the alternative.
Similar how OBS can stream to YouTube and Twitch simultaneously.
The channel sync is awesome and very stable.
Most of the creators on Canadian Civil use it. The issue is if you just dual-post you don’t get the benefit that PeerTube offers of a place to test and reupload your video.
That does sound like it would help.
And there will be even fewer users with a bad or lacking interface. It certainly does not solve the problem, but it helps reduce barriers to entry for new users.
I mean that's true but I don't think that's part of the chicken and egg cycle, as you can improve UX before getting users too
Is the egg not income or does peer tube pay creators now?
Income and viewers are the same egg. You can put up sponsor segments but they're no good if nobody is watching.
That is a good point. Sponsors are the only way to make money on the decentralized networks.