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If you have a YouTube channel, this is your signal to setup a @peertube instance, the free and open source YouTube alternative that's fediverse enabled.

"But how do I monetize things to pay for my bills? Servers aren't free you know"

Great question! It's true that PeerTube doesn't have a monetization system built in. But bills aren't actually that high. To give an example: I've been running an instance on a server with 700 GB of SSD storage for less than €20 a month. It hosts almost 900 videos of various length, mostly on the longer side (between 30 and 60 minutes) and it holds about 265 GB of the server space currently. So, that's 15 years of video archive using around 1/3 of the storage.

The best ways to monetize have always been to build a community of loyal watchers. Let them support you on Patreon (or consider some open source alternatives like Liberapay, Open Collective, Coindrop, Maecen, or Be-BOP).

"But how can people find my content?"

The creators of PeerTube also developed a great search engine, called Sepia Search. Also, your content can be federated by other PeerTube instances.

"Ok, I setup an instance. But how do I migrate my content off YouTube?"

You can actually setup a sync in the settings on PeerTube, that automatically pulls in your videos. No effort!

Become part of the solution, migrate away from corporate platforms. If all YouTube content creators did this, we'd actually have a better internet.

usermag.co/p/youtube-removes-g

User Mag · YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policyBy Taylor Lorenz

Thank you @angrynerdspodcast for the great evening! And the stickers! They've given some great upgrade to my laptop lid 😃.

p.s. link to the podcast comes tomorow when it's on #PeerTube 😉.

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I think anyone who makes high effort videos should have a #PeerTube instance.
Two reasons:
1) It takes me months to make a video. I can't stand it when they have glitches on release. PeerTube lets you upload FinalCut.mp4 and FinalCut_v2.mp4 and ForRealFinalCut.mp4 to get the last few glitches out of the system with a test audience.
2) Permanent archive. No way am I risking 5 years of my life getting wiped out because I used a clip of a Beatles song in a running joke.

video.fedihost.co/w/wFXsQU6npQ

YouTube: trying its best in the war against FOSS alternatives, frontends and ad blockers to create a single unified ad-ridden interface for video

#PeerTube: would you like an RSS feed of your subscriptions so you don't even need to come check?