To be fair, it already exists - PeerTube is a thing. The real reason people stay on YouTube is the network effect[1] - everyone else is there, so why would you leave? They’re not coming with you, they’re not giving you money on the new platform, they can just stay on YouTube and keep life simple by not worrying about a bunch of choices. Epic has spent billions losing money trying to compete with the network effect that Steam benefits off, so it’s clear how much money and risk it takes… only for nothing to really change. It’s not something that we can expect creators to drive without collective effort, and that kind of is happening with Nebula (which is part owned by the creators who join it) - we can only hope they keep that momentum going so they begin to form a real threat to YouTube’s dominance.
Making a video is easy. Making a good video is hard. Setting up a server and configuring Peertube is a level above that. Once you’ve done it you’ve successfully reduced your total addressable market from billions to maybe a few thousand.
To be fair, it already exists - PeerTube is a thing. The real reason people stay on YouTube is the network effect[1] - everyone else is there, so why would you leave? They’re not coming with you, they’re not giving you money on the new platform, they can just stay on YouTube and keep life simple by not worrying about a bunch of choices. Epic has spent billions losing money trying to compete with the network effect that Steam benefits off, so it’s clear how much money and risk it takes… only for nothing to really change. It’s not something that we can expect creators to drive without collective effort, and that kind of is happening with Nebula (which is part owned by the creators who join it) - we can only hope they keep that momentum going so they begin to form a real threat to YouTube’s dominance.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
Making a video is easy. Making a good video is hard. Setting up a server and configuring Peertube is a level above that. Once you’ve done it you’ve successfully reduced your total addressable market from billions to maybe a few thousand.
I’ve read you can sync accounts and auto-publish your YT uploads to Peertube?
Sounds like the inital setup of choosing an instance and making an account is the most effort you’re going to go through