What keeps you away from PeerTube? What features does PeerTube lack? If you were the developer of PeerTube, how would you improve it?
What keeps you away from PeerTube? What features does PeerTube lack? If you were the developer of PeerTube, how would you improve it?
Controversial opinion: I think PeerTube should add support for paid-access content as you could then persuade the creators on Nebula to join. Since they are promoting their YT-alternative already, this would mean extra PeerTube publicity and users for free.
I don’t pay for YouTube Premium because (a) I can already block ads and (b) YouTube doesn’t offer what I would pay for, which is a no-log, no-profiling policy. As it is, paying just means that YouTube can link my financial details to my profile.
I do pay for Kagi.
I’d be willing to pay for something like YouTube Premium if someone could make something like YouTube Premium, adopted a no-log, no-profile policy, and charged $15/month or something like that. I’m not sure how many people would be willing to do that, though. And there are other challenges:
I don’t know if a privacy-oriented commercial streaming service is what the people who are working on PeerTube actually want to make.
I think that it will be difficult, though not impossible, to build the kind of content and userbase that YouTube has – it has network effect, which favors large incumbents.
Surely wouldn’t co-opting the paying Nebula user base help PT fight the network effect though? The users would probably leak over to the other, free PT channels too.