Re:Moving from YouTube to PeerTube
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @05:47PM
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"None of my videos have ever gotten a large number of views, and none are monetized, so I might as well copy them to a PeerTube instance I control."
As we know, there is a growing history of unexpected changes or even phase-outs of services/features that were once considered fixtures provided by Google.
There is nothing I am aware of that says a user could/should not simultaneously 1. keeps backups of her work on physcial media in her possession (as well "in the cloud"), 2. host her work on YouTube or some similarly commercial service, and 3. self-host her work on PeerTube. The decision to diversify should not matter whether the videos have significant views or not.
If both services are free, do you have to "move" from service X to service Y, or can you can just "copy" (mirror).
As we know, there is a growing history of unexpected changes or even phase-outs of services/features that were once considered fixtures provided by Google.
There is nothing I am aware of that says a user could/should not simultaneously 1. keeps backups of her work on physcial media in her possession (as well "in the cloud"), 2. host her work on YouTube or some similarly commercial service, and 3. self-host her work on PeerTube. The decision to diversify should not matter whether the videos have significant views or not.
If both services are free, do you have to "move" from service X to service Y, or can you can just "copy" (mirror).