Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.

  • bufalo1973@piefed.social
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    6 hours ago

    Because YouTube can shoot down you account and all your videos get blocked if they want?

    Every political content creator should use PeerTube at least as a backup.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      They just use IG and TT as backups. Yeah, you could be banned from all three. But that’s where the audience is, so without that why bother?

      I love the idea of fediverse video, but even I don’t use it. No content I care about. No audience that would care about me. I get more visibility on a Lemmy post that just says “beans” than I would spending an hour making a 30 second video.

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        6 hours ago

        No service starts as the winner. Each one has to work it’s way up (or down).

        But I don’t say “don’t use YT”. Use it is you want (I do too). But, if you are a content creator, use PF as a backup. There are already some channels that do.

    • hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      5 hours ago

      Most of them have Patreon for that, which actually produces income.

      What’s the incentive? All they would be doing is pushing views away from platforms where having viewers actually benefits them, either through metrics or income or both.

      Honestly the best way to get that going might be to have a company and offer sponsorship deals with the requirement that creators also post to Peertube. But that would require companies having a reason to want people on Peertube.

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        4 hours ago

        Linux Weekly News already has a channel in YT and the same channel¹ in PT, with a sponsor (Tuxedo Computers).

        ¹ the same videos uploaded in both places.