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YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe (www.dexerto.com)
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[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 7 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

You can’t really monetize PeerTube

Lots of channels have a link to their Patreon or a tip jar; lots do live reads.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago

You can monetize PT with Patreon, but you can monetize YT with Patreon and get paid twice.

That's why YT has 5 9's of the creators.

[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Sure, but then you're still bringing a for-profit company into the mix. PeerTube is your loss-leader and Patreon is your main platform.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 3 points 11 hours ago

Some channels use Ghost instead of Patreon, including one of my favorites Anders Puck

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

I'm with GreenBeard on this and was always saying that monetization is the biggest peertube problem. Patreon and such are not an ideal option, subscription is IMO. A subscription that would be distributed through authors fairly, but that's not an easy task I suppose.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

liberapay can do that already. but apparently they don't have the necessary API for integration: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/1586#issuecomment-459100710

[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 hours ago

Like I said, Nebula does it and it's pretty good. Hard to get on as a creator unless you have a proven follower base elsewhere though. They're still mainly using YouTube as a farm league.

Might be interesting to see Nebula set up a fund for PeerTube creators and start using that as a farm league, but I don't know that they have the subscription revenue for that yet.