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Re:PeerTube v3 by judge2020 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:21PM (#25709062)
That's kind of an issue then - YouTube is only partly (probably a single-digit-percent given they dropped the direct share feature[0]) about sharing videos with friends - most people stick around for the recommendations, ie. the endless stream of interesting/intriguing/funny content. Most of that content currently dominating YT (at least, at the quantity that it's produced) is only possible due to these creators making YouTube their full-time job and getting paid to do it. Linus Tech Tips (which also runs Techquickie and Techlinked) attributes 26% of their total revenue to YT Ads[1], and the other categories (like merchandise/affiliate links) aren't something everyone can do if their videos aren't about products available on Amazon or can't grow their merch at the rate LTT does. If PT is just about sharing videos, then you might as well run a nextcloud instance instead since 'no ads' is a huge downside to PT for creators.

0: https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/21/youtube-is-closing-its-pri...

1: https://youtu.be/-zt57TWkTF4?t=395

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Re:PeerTube v3 by BlueTemplar on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:16AM (#25712695)
You're forgetting about donations / patronage, which everyone can do and I'm willing to bet has been growing in share for the past years.
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Re:PeerTube v3 by BlueTemplar on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:25AM (#25713584)
I'm pretty sure that one of the main reasons that YouTube 'won' is that it was easy to just share these videos with friends/family, and also straightforward to enable/disable public sharing of them.

I've never even heard of that 'direct share' feature, but have used the private and unreferenced settings on my videos many times over the years.

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