A comment from @disrooter from another thread;https://lemmy.ml/post/57418/comment/42932

"As someone who managed a PeerTube instance for a large YouTube channel I have to say the big problem is storage: how are you going to pay for storage that increases with each new video while the income is mostly the same? From a business point of view it’s a suicide.

Keep in mind content creators on YouTube produce many gigabytes/week. In a few years they would have to pay hundreds of dollars each week, even when they pause and not producing any new video, when they are getting less donations and so on.

Why should they invest so much money in a PeerTube instance? Only a premium pay-to-view service can justify it and you really need a high cost-to-produce-and-stream-the-video/minutes-of-video ratio to make it convenient, for example documentaries and not lazy records of hours of online debates." -end quote

This means that if avid content creators wants to host a peertube instance, they will be held back from doing it, because of how expensive it will be.

Just wanna talk about this issue, it deserves It’s own post. let me know what you think.

  • Raavan@lemmy.ml
    2·
    4 years ago

    The main reason why YouTube Creators are not coming to Peertube is as simple as Money. It is not worth it. They may be fine without earnings from YouTube, but I dont think Sponsors will pay the same if their videos are on Peertube.

    • Gwynne@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      4 years ago

      but I dont think Sponsors will pay the same if their videos are on Peertube.

      why? can you elaborate?

      • Raavan@lemmy.ml
        2·
        4 years ago

        Sponsors’ pay depends on the number of views a particular creator gets on an average. Most of the time their contract will specify the number of views required for the payment. YouTube have huge number of users compared to Peertube and thus less views than YouTube. So they wont be getting the same money as they get when on Youtube. So, why move.

        • Gwynne@lemmy.mlOP
          3·
          4 years ago

          I never told anyone to move, rather I told people to ask them to also host it on peertube so it will be available on the fediverse. that’s why it doesn’t make sense to me that you’ve said that.

          • Raavan@lemmy.ml
            3·
            4 years ago

            That I think a lot of people have started doing. Hopefully the numbers will increase. I think there is a crossposting service between Peertube and YouTube.

            • disrooter@lemmy.ml
              2·
              4 years ago

              There is, PeerTube developers also provide a script that can import an entire YouTube channel to PeerTube, metadata like description included. The script can be run locally on your PC or on the PeerTube server if you are the admin. The script can also import the videos from a certain date to another one. It doesn’t duplicate the videos, so if you set it to run automatically once in a while it will just import new videos.

        • Niquarl@lemmy.ml
          1·
          4 years ago

          A couple of more popular channels started offering their videos in podcast format, I am thinking of CGP Crey and MinutePhysics. It would be interesting to know how many views (or downloads as I think that’s how it’s calculated) they got on that. As it’s possible to get PeerTube videos via RSS then it could be possible to set up their own instance. I wonder what the difference is for costs or views in that sense.