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I just want more things on Peertube.
I really want to love peertube and use it but the transition is hard. I feel bad for "wasting" server space and compute and when I view the video on peertube I'm making my favorite creators gain less traction on YouTube which directly affects their income and growth.
Honestly, I’m murdering the productivity of every channel I watch anyways with uBlock origin and sponsorBlock, so I don’t think it’d be much worse
That's not as bad because the amount of money they get for 1 view is less than a cent and the sponsor still pays. But if youtube recommends me a video from a creator I like who has only 5k subs and I don't watch it because I saw it on peertube youtube might think the video is bad because the channels audience isn't watching it.
Some of them can be supported through Patreon and they’re getting way more money than through YouTube.
But it’s through that it lacks content and it’s also difficult to find content on peertube.
PeerTube has a search engine : https://sepiasearch.org Does that not work well ?
It needs a recommendation algorithm. Search is simply not enough to find videos you may like.
Search would be enough if it had the content library of YouTube.
I would give so much money to Patreons if I wasn’t broke myself 😅
Give what you can and if you can’t it’s also okay.
I’m only giving 1$ a month to the Linux Experiment, but, according to him, that’s way more than what he would get from me watching his videos on YouTube.
I’m also donating 100$ a year to many open source projects, but I might have to give up because of financial troubles too..
I agree, peer tube's biggest issues so far besides the storage or the fact that there are almost no peer tube servers which offer user accounts (which isn't needed explicitly to watch videos but makes the experience much better), and also the fact that there aren't really any good apps to use it with that aren't outdated or abandoned.
You know that PeerTube has a build-in video import tool ? It can import Youtube / Dailymotion / Vimeo channels or playlists.
https://docs.joinpeertube.org/use/channel-sync
I think that downloading YouTube videos is technically illegal unless you have been the uploader of the videos. But with PeerTube you can create private channels which you could share with friends or maybe even paid subscribers I guess.