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Assuming that audience isn't bots ala Twitter or Facebook, or what the audience on YT will probably eventually turn into.

Well, that leaves anyone in a trade out of the dating pool then because most of them, eg. in the carpentry field, use hammers of some kind and in some way.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thanks!

I've said this before, but the kid who made the deepfake CP is getting charged for that.

PCs even are still more open by a large degree than mobile devices despite MS' multiple attempts to lock them down at the bootloader/firmware level and despite traditional desktops getting priced further and further out of reach to most people, with mini PCs picking up the slack in the budget sector as a result.

You don't, these are single-use for a reason.

I wish them all the luck because we desperately need stuff like this and like Linux phones in the mobile space as Google and Apple threaten to lock the entire space down with Android and iOS respectively.