When I tried it in the past, I kinda didn't take it seriously because everything was confined to its instance, but now, there's full-featured global search and proper federation everywhere? Wow, I thought I heard there were some technical obstacles making it very unlikely, but now it's just there and works great! I asked ChatGPT and it says this feature was added 5 years ago! Really? I'm not sure how I didn't notice this sooner. Was it really there for so long? With flairs showing original instance where video comes from and everything?

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[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Counter point: I dont want to watch content that has a monetary incentive behind it.

[–] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Why exactly do you think people create content for you to consume in the first place?

[–] MouldyCat@feddit.uk 20 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Sharing knowledge. Lots of people are not primarily motivated by greed.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

That’s great to aspire for but there’s still an almost total lack of content in many genres I enjoy on YouTube. I don’t even think PeerTube has progressed as far as the Lemmy community in terms of content availability. Admittedly this is probably because text and image content is much easier to create, but as a user I don’t find much reason to spend time there yet.

So if you don’t want a monetized model, there is still a need to have another solution to the lack of content, and I haven’t seen one yet.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

What kinda stuff do you like on youtube?

https://lemmy.wtf/post/15810205

(thanks again to @meldrik@lemmy.wtf for maintaining this awesome list)

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not the person you're asking, but I mostly watch craft stuff, particularly 1:12 scale dollhouse miniatures and sewing. The most recent video I could find that was even remotely relevant is several months old and about a different kind of miniature.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Best you can do is ask some of these content creators to also post their videos to PeerTube.

PeerTube has built-in syncing of YouTube channels, so it’s fairly easy once it’s set up.

[–] cole@lemdro.id 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why would they do that without any monetary incentive at all?

I mean, I guess what I'm saying is if you can post to YouTube and get paid, why would you intentionally choose to post to PeerTube and not get paid?

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Because Google ads isn’t the only source of income nor the biggest.

[–] 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 1 points 2 days ago

but it the most well known....

[–] 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

of course... but plenty are. When you see kids at school saying they want to be content creators as a job you know it is only going to get worse. I never said it was right or wrong but it is exactly what it is for a large percentage of people. Also can't get past the fact that like googling something, watching a video on youtube is literally in peoples vocabulary

[–] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 1 points 1 day ago

I don't want to watch the people who aspire to do it as a job. They saw some influences online who are profit driven and think they can get similarly rich. Many see it as an easy job (it's not).

I want to watch people motivated by their thirst for creativity and sharing knowledge, and if money comes their way they will see it as secondary. I would prefer them to do something else as a job.

[–] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What content have you produced for free? Do you consider yourself greedy when you cash your work paychecks?

I know first hand that making content is a lot of work

[–] Blueberrydreamer@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 3 days ago

I've made and shared plenty of 3d models for the 3D printing community. People can certainly make it a job, and that's perfectly reasonable. But, I will never be interested in a community of for-profit model makers. If their goal is to make money off me, it's not a community, I'm just a customer. The point of the community is to learn and share information, to help people and be helped in return. If that time is 'work' for you, don't do it. Or make content and sell it on YouTube, do what you want, I'm just not interested in it.

[–] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Should teachers stop making money too?

[–] AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Of course not but some may do free workshops just because they feel it may help their community.

I don't work for free either but if my neighbor needs a new alternator or cabinet door fixed I will help/ show them how to fix it.

[–] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Most creators just ask voluntary donations for very few exclusive or temporary exclusivity

[–] AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Makes sense

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago

Plenty of people uploaded stuff to youtube for years before it started giving them any money

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

Humans love sharing new things with each other, its part of our social structure and how we ensure our own survival. Its as natural as hunger or thirst.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 0 points 3 days ago

Same, and it's weird to me that so many people now believe that they deserve to be paid for participating in their hobbies.