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Re:Show HN: Nodetube – Open-source YouTube alternative with ... by ghaff on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @12:26PM (#21929100)
Most individuals have gotten very accustomed to largely not paying (directly) for hosted content/email/etc.

This isn't universal. There are relatively niche sites that people pay to use, or at least have paid tiers. But free is what most people expect. (Look at all the outrage when SmugMug eliminated the 1TB free limit that Yahoo put on Flickr.)

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Re:Show HN: Nodetube – Open-source YouTube alternative with ... by mayeaux on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @12:55PM (#21929323)
My take is you go the freemium model. Free version of NodeTube gets you cool features, but if you want really epic features (livestreaming, increased file uploads, private/unlisted uploads) then you have to pay a bit. My bet is that people will get behind the project and pay a bit of extra money on a freemium model to access the extra features and support the NodeTube instance.
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