I remember it too. I just also remember how much of a quality improvement career YouTubers made. It’s still a good and valid thing imo, they make good videos for money. All platforms should facilitate that. Not facilitating that brings us back to an internet I honestly don’t think had a lot of value, just random family videos mostly.

With instance subscriptions you could cut out the huge cut Google takes and make creator unions essentially much easier to make.

As long as they are compatible. Lemmy for instance is not very compatible with mastadon and the like. I was under the impression that activitypub payloads were app specific, and everyone is just kinda coat tailing mastodon.

Good point about the other funding methods.

I know nebula creators aren’t supporting any kind of revolution but they are creating their own coop and I commend them for that. All workers should. Maybe just an oss tool to get communities like them started for groups that want to form coops.

In that idea what we need is a built in interface for sponsorship, tipping, and paid subscriptions, built into PeerTube. They could have subscriptions on the instance itself or the channel.

Yeah but that’s not the case for almost any other brand new video sharing platform. Because now people know how to content create. But they need to make money.

I’m very happy with lemmy. It has enough adoption to use it and it doesn’t matter that specific person X or every person in the world isn’t on there.

This is comedy gold