Admittedly a risky crosspost, but cannot find conflicting community rules. I believe the possible discussion justifies it.
cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/[email protected]/p/999813/what-s-stopping-you-from-using-peertube
Or ‘What is PeerTube lacking that you simply cannot do without?’
I believe it’s a safe assumption that fediverse users want to move away from the monopolies and closed gardens so often associated with video streaming, and yet it’s not a task that’s ever been made easy. Maybe an ounce of inspiration is the cue we need, and so my question to you is; What’s Stopping you from using PeerTube?
Peertube, while great in concept, doesn’t do anything better than YouTube but asks you to give up a lot of comfort and familiarity as a user. By and large, most people don’t care about decentralization, and if search doesn’t work well and you aren’t getting good recommendations, it’s a strictly worse experience for them.
Users will go where the content is shared, so the real question should be “Why haven’t content creators left YouTube yet?” and the answer is quite simple, they married their livelihoods to the trapped userbase and switching platforms, even to another walled garden, would be financially detrimental. Uploading to another platform is extra work that they don’t want to do and actively harms their bottom line.
I feel like the only real solution for a lot of these creators is to run their own sites like corridor digital does. The content can go anywhere, but if they rely on the income, that’s gotta come from somewhere