What a great conversation! So many interesting points being brought up!

For anyone interested, I run a PeerTube instance called TILvids (which stands for “Today I Learned Vids”) over at https://www.tilvids.com The mission of our instance is to find great edutainment content to provide to our community.

Every problem that has been outlined here is legit, and something we’ve encountered. Hosting can be hard. Finding content creators willing to share content is hard. Moderating is hard. Funding is hard. They are all problems to be figured out. The good news is, TILvids has been around for three years now, and continues to slowly grow each year. We have almost 4,000 registered users and over 2300 videos posted! We have some absolutely amazing contributors as well, such as The Linux Experiment!

Long-term, I’m hoping to really lean-in to the community aspect of what we’re doing. I have no aspirations to ever turn TILvids into a public corporation, but instead plan to incorporate as a non-profit and create a board represented by creators, moderators, and other voices in the community, to help drive the direction of TILvids. At the moment, we’re completely community-funded, but at some point I’d also like to see some level of broad corporate sponsorship (similar to PBS in the United States, as opposed to ads like YouTube), and use that revenue to offset costs for running and maintaining the site, and then pass on the rest to the creators making content, because as a creator myself, I know how much work it is!

So that’s TILvids in a nutshell. You can learn more by watching our “What is TILvids?” video, and if you wouldn’t mind passing it along to spread the word, that would be fantastic, as that is how we grow. Thanks for the awesome discussion here!

(note: I’m not SUPER active on Lemmy, I spend most of my time communicating over on Mastodon, but I’ll try to keep this thread open in a tab, in case you have any questions!)

https://tilvids.com/w/e58xxgfeYXM2R3wouecxEm

Huzzah, thank you TILvids Lemmy community for your continued support and engagement!

They also make great musical instruments!

Go figure…

mind blown

Hi, I’m not @the_tech_beast@lemmy.ml They do an awesome job managing the Lemmy community over here because I simply don’t have the time to dedicate to it. I’m the person that started and runs TILvids. I wanted to be supportive of the Lemmy community, but didn’t have time to run yet another social media platform. @the_tech_beast@lemmy.ml stepped up and offered to manage and post here, which I was happy to take them up on.

Thanks for being a great community, and for your interest in TILvids! Really appreciate the support, hope you’re enjoying it!

Thank you for the work you do here! I love supporting Lemmy but just flat-out don’t have time to run another community. That said, like you mentioned, the engagement over here is much better than Reddit, which is awesome to see. Very happy people are active over here!

It’s a good one! ;)

Sorry, I do the uploading for TheLinuxExperiment on TILvids, and it just pulls in whatever he has for the description. I’m guessing it formats it a lot better on TILvids/YT, but somewhere along the way it’s lost in translation when it comes to Lemmy!

Good question! Personally, I don’t think our community is large enough on TILvids yet to make commenting active enough. People come to Lemmy specifically to discuss, and that’s cool. Maybe something to consider down the road as the TILvids community grows.

Thanks to everyone joining us from Lemmy, much more engagement here than on Reddit! You guys rock!

I’ve been in the Linux community for a long time, and I’ve learned two truths:

1. Change comes slowly.
2. But it does eventually come.

Linux was so hard to use 20 years ago. 10 years ago it was better, but still behind. Today, it’s really nice to use, with a few constraints. I am pretty optimistic about the next 10 years for Linux.

It was a good week. Both creators join us after fallout from Odysee making some rather toxic posts on social media that were not well-received by some creators. We’re happy to have them join us!

It was a good article. I thought it was important to share, because there is so much nonsense going around about “the next evolution of the Internet” being the metaverse or crypto, all of which are just big tech or VC interests trying to capture and create more walled-gardens on the Internet.

The next evolution of the Internet needs to be decentralization and small social communities, none of which should be driven by targeted ads.

Indeed! Very happy to have them join us!

They are! I clear out a LOT of junk (like, probably 5+ per day) but they are still rising. Very good trend for sure! :)

No worries, thanks for getting it posted!

Facebook’s walled-garden interpretation of the Internet is about the worst thing you could possibly imagine.

Thanks for the awareness of the site!

All of them! I am a bit biased though! :)

Indeed!