If you have a YouTube channel, this is your signal to setup a @peertube instance, the free and open source YouTube alternative that's fediverse enabled.
"But how do I monetize things to pay for my bills? Servers aren't free you know"
Great question! It's true that PeerTube doesn't have a monetization system built in. But bills aren't actually that high. To give an example: I've been running an instance on a server with 700 GB of SSD storage for less than €20 a month. It hosts almost 900 videos of various length, mostly on the longer side (between 30 and 60 minutes) and it holds about 265 GB of the server space currently. So, that's 15 years of video archive using around 1/3 of the storage.
The best ways to monetize have always been to build a community of loyal watchers. Let them support you on Patreon (or consider some open source alternatives like Liberapay, Open Collective, Coindrop, Maecen, or Be-BOP).
"But how can people find my content?"
The creators of PeerTube also developed a great search engine, called Sepia Search. Also, your content can be federated by other PeerTube instances.
"Ok, I setup an instance. But how do I migrate my content off YouTube?"
You can actually setup a sync in the settings on PeerTube, that automatically pulls in your videos. No effort!
Become part of the solution, migrate away from corporate platforms. If all YouTube content creators did this, we'd actually have a better internet.
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