Good day all. I now have a nonprofit called BT Free for Big Tech Free. It is a digital privacy rights, advocacy and consulting nonprofit. We’re currently working on our 501©3.

Our first platform is Peertube, set up at TubeFree.org. We have registrations open, but no upload. If you’d like to upload, we’re looking for quality content on our moderated instance. We can also attempt to help folks get their own set up if folks would prefer to do that. The goal is to start actively building out system to help people move from Big Tech.

This is still a major work in progress, but I’d love to hear folks thoughts on any creators that might be receptive to copying their content to Peertube or any platforms people would be interested in having to move your content to.

I’m investigating some kind of revenue sharing or something with creators. I also want to pass on funds to developers actively working on the Fediverse.

And I have a thought to take donations, but also maybe do like some and charge monthly amounts for more resources. Or do funding drives. Other things. If anyone has suggestions I’d love to hear them.

I might even run our own BT Free community here on Pieces.social if folks would be interested in following that.

  • Sackeshi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Most people don’t start making videos to make money. In the early Tube days there was no money.

    Not anymore, people have jobs which take up at least 8 hours of their day, sleep another lets round it to 8 hours, then other responsibilities. Anyone who seriously want to make quality videos on a consistent schedule wants to make money and the end goal being to turn it into their job.

    PeerTube only has 1 less avenue for monetization than YT, among dozens.

    People on Youtube are much more easily able to make money and make a living. Most of it actually has nothing to do with Youtube other than the fact that Youtube provides them with a base of billions of potential viewers.

    1. AdSense which is hands down the worst of them.
    2. Sponsors allow people to decide who they are willing to show on their videos and makes people decent money especially bigger creators. That’s not going to happen on smaller platforms.
    3. Patrion this is probably the biggest one people are able to get consistent monthly income and make Youtube their full time job.
    4. Creator made subscription platforms. This is another big perk I pay for 2 curiosity stream and the history one.

    No one is going to a platform thats “just for fun” because content quality will suffer and be less enjoyable for creators.

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Not anymore, people have jobs which take up at least 8 hours of their day,

      You think people didn’t used to have jobs?

      Anyone who seriously want to make quality videos on a consistent schedule wants to make money and the end goal being to turn it into their job.

      “Quality” is subjective and doesn’t necessarily require much money.

      Most of it actually has nothing to do with Youtube

      Thank you for elaborating on my point.

      No one is going to a platform thats “just for fun”

      Thousands of people already are. Myself included.

      And it’s not “just for fun”, it’s because we don’t want to subject ourselves to abusive and invasive corporations.

      • Sackeshi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        You think people didn’t used to have jobs?

        Back then videos were a lot less produced and more raw style. When I first started using/watching youtube in 07 content was a lot quicker to make.

        “Quality” is subjective and doesn’t necessarily require much money.

        The requiring money isn’t about cost to produce its the time it takes. Most successful channels now have several hours of editing for each video because the average standard of videos now looks like it could be produced for TV.

        Thousands of people already are. Myself included. And it’s not “just for fun”, it’s because we don’t want to subject ourselves to abusive and invasive corporations.

        I agree with this on paper, but in practice the “customer base” is currently Youtube and TikTok. If I want to create a serious channel with a lot of views and a large community I’d need to spend all my free time making and editing videos and without a real chance to monetize its just not worth it.

        • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Back then videos were a lot less produced and more raw style.

          Most successful channels now have several hours of editing for each video

          I’d need to spend all my free time making and editing videos

          I’m noticing a recurring theme here. You seem to think every channel and video needs to be really high production quality for some reason. They don’t. Look at channels like penguinz0 and SomeOrdinaryGamers. Both of them are just dudes ranting into shitty webcams with the trashiest of production value and both of them have tens of million of subscribers. And it’s especially impressive considering it’s easier than ever to make high quality productions.