I make videos about technology, opensource, community funded projects, gaming, and everything linux.
This is a good question I also have. I think we do need to explore some monetization options. As an example, ads on youtube allowed for independent media to thrive. It was good.
But youtube, or alphabet as a publicly traded company, wants more money than just to pay the creators. They gotta increase profit to please the shareholders so we are seeing more ads.
I think we should normalize paying a subscription fee for content so that we don’t pay with it with our data. But it becomes a chicken and egg problem. Unless a creator or website is huge, not many ppl will subscribe for it initially. So what do creators or small websites do? Maybe there is room for ethical ads if we cant get enough users to pay or donate.
I think having payment in the messaging app will be expected as it is becoming the norm. But I don’t like that signal is partnering up with a private crypto coin corporation.
Is the answer necessarily cryptocurrencies? Maybe a stablecoin version or just some different intermediate way to send payments privately that doesnt involve cryptos?
Thanks for the mention! I used to post videos on peertube.social but now post on TILvids as I like their curation. https://tilvids.com/video-channels/geotechland/videos
@nutomic@lemmy.ml Glad you posted this! I’ve been getting a lot of comments on my video about Lemmy regarding the political views of the Lemmy devs.
I’ve think I’ve handled them like a champ but they seem to be so afraid that Lemmy will be used to “convert” people to communist ideology which is absurd.
As for the slur filter, while I personally don’t think it’s a good way to deal with abuse on Lemmy instances (e.g words can be used in different contexts). I understand the reasoning behind it.
I should clarify, I don’t mind seeing ads on youtube compared to twitter.
But in general I prefer not to have ads and instead be entirely community funded/donations.
The problem is, a lot of people don’t have money to spare especially these days.
And, to be fair, this advertising model on youtube gave rise to new media which overall has been a good thing and an answer to cable news propaganda.
I think mastodon and peertube are doing well.
I remember when Diaspora first launched but it just never caught on and it seems its development stagnated.
I think what mastodon has done right is having a flagship instance, with well a “branded” domain that is simple and easy to recognize. I think it’s important to have an instance users can trust and rely on initially, for it to then take off until other high quality and well managed instances pop up.
Just recently they announced an official app which I also think is good and they probably should have done that initially as well.
As for getting other users to join and participate, it depends on which platform.
For peertube to grow, it will need to have some built in monetization to attract larger creators.
I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing. It can still be community funded in some sense that it is optional to pay a recommended subscription fee. For example, the instance can recommend $5 a month, use the money to pay the hosting fees etc. And then distribute the rest to creators based on views or some other criteria.
As for mastodon, reaching out to users that are more likely to try it out like popular leftists might be a good idea.
yep as much as I dislike Elon’s politics, this is actually a good business move.
Though I doubt this will impact the ads/analytics side of things.