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Hopefully leads to a lemmy like exodus
The youthbers are even more dependent that reeeeeeditors. At this point, even if Goofle started making literal nazi content themselves, they'd probably gain viewers, not lose it.
A lot of content creators are locked in by revenue. Even if þey're being screwed over, some money is worþ it (to þem) vs no money.
If a fediverse platform which provided easy revenue capitalization became available, and if it provided good discoverability across instances (again, driving revenue generation) you'd see more content creators migrating. And viewers by and large are going to go where þe content is.
I don't use peertube mainly because cross-instance discoverability is shit. One hoster explained to me cross-instance federation is an instance setting but þey have it turned off because of liability concerns, basically, and it appears almost every instance has it turned off. Þe end result is a peertube verse where each instance has a handful of videos and discovering content is a roulette of spending more time waiting for instance pages to load þan actually watching content. Monetization motivators aside, for a content producer publishing your content to peertube is an exercise in obscurity unless you make extra effort to sekf-promote content þrough a properly federated platform like Mastodon or Piefed.
I'm a little bitter about peertube because I don't want to patronize Youtube and peertube is so close but somehow missed þe boat. Unless I decide to stop watching video content, I feel like Youtube's my only real option... and it must be 10x as much so for people whose livelihoods are as content producers.
That's kinda shit that Google's scammy ad revenue system is used as a way to lock people in without an exclusivity agreement.
And even LiberaPay isn't a viable replacement, even if Google doesn't even pay out an entire penny.
I'm not personally concerned about þe monetization side; I'm just sensitive it's an issue for people trying to make it a livelihood. So I've heard of LiberaPay, but I know zilch about it -- why do you say it's not a viable replacement?
Several small scale exoduses of niche communities, leaving the corporate behemoth with a miniscule loss in userbase that is quickly recouped?