Fuck AI

The issue is that video creation is a lot more labor intensive and YouTube does two things for creators that PeerTube doesn't. First, the algorithm builds an audience. Cutting out YouTube or another video social media site is going to make audience creation a lot harder. Second, ad revenue from social media sites are greater than zero. It may not be a lot of money, but it is something.

On the flip side, there is nothing inherent to PeerTube or similar platforms which will filter AI slop.

I disagree with the applicability of that metaphor to infrastructure entirely. It's not a community you're participating in, it's a tool. Abandoning that tool to the worst of us to prove you're not one of them is self defeating.

Not in defense of LBRY/Odysee but it's difficult for any unmoderated platform to be not overrun by nazis these days.

LBRY started with a decent premise but their monetization idea was based on cryptocurrency, so it was doomed from the beginning.

On distributed/federated platforms the best we can do is to de-federate from such instances.

The most frustrating this is that I wasn't going to, but now I might, just out of spite.

Also, it's overtly stupid advice to "move" anywhere. You can re-upload the same thing in multiple places if you want to, there isn't only one copy, lol.

Bottom line is, creators will stay/go where the audience is. There is no place that is even close to 1% of the size of YouTube, for that type of content.

Don't have to self-host, there are plenty of public instances one could sign up for, I picked peertube.wtf, but you have MakerTube if you're an art or craft-focused creator, for example, or even CuddlyTube among other public instances.

Self-hosting is ideal if you have the spare hardware, but you can still post to public instances if you don't.

Anybody receiving income from a site they do not control should diversify. Ideally they should have their own site and use uncontrolled sites to funnel people to that site. That way a platform ban does not kill all income.

Also the crypto angle.

Odysee's better for generating traction because it has a larger userbase than PeerTube, but shouldn't be your go-to, is what I was trying to insinuate.

Also, you can at least block the right-wing stuff on there and your decision will be respected, Google doesn't respect the 'don't show me any of this' command at all on YT, and will still show you stuff you told it not to show you anyways, by contrast.

Basically, Odysee's good for generating buzz and trying to get your name out there without using Google to do it, but PeerTube's better in terms of having control over your content and presence.

Every platform has far right videos. YouTube, peertube, viemo, rumble, bitchute.

And hope AI don't cannibalize your viewers anyways, which it probably will with the way it's being pushed over there, including by Google themselves.

Meanwhile PeerTube and even Odysee doesn't have the problem of AI cannibalizing viewership.

Also, YT's ad revenue system is effectively an MLM, or at least adjacent to one; the only way you'll make it in the algorithm is by getting a huge downline, or in this case getting a ton of subscribers under you who will then spread your stuff around, and the MLM comparison comes from making a whole bunch of slop to get people sucked in; MLMs typically sell wares of low quality at best to wares that are outright dangerous at worst to give off an air of legitimacy when they're really just a pyramid scheme. YT's algorithm operates similarly.

Meanwhile crowdfunding and even creator-driven premium platforms like Nebula pay out more than YT's ad revenue system will.

Or even Nebula if you work in the education/DIY or documentary niches; assuming you can get a big enough audience, you could theoretically sell premium content on Nebula to fund your free content on PeerTube or Odysee.

I won't be surprised if there was an art/entertainment or commentary niche equivalent for Nebula somewhere, unless Floatplane is that equivalent.

YouTube lets absolutely anyone upload a video, even if it will only get tens of views from their immediate friends, meaning someone can start making videos and grow organically.

I don't think Floatplane lets just anyone upload.