Monetizing leads to being able to pay bills. Don't you think authors deserve being paid for the content if they wish so? Besides Google managing of youtube is cause of shittiness. Personally I would be fine with a subscription as long as artists get most of it.

[–] nico198X@lemmy.zip 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

it doesn't need to be built in. there's already a section to add Support links.

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

How do support links work?

[–] nico198X@lemmy.zip 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

just external links to donate sites, patreons, Kofi, etc.

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, that does not and will not work, at least not on scale. Think about an average user - do you think he/she will donate to each video he/she watches, perhaps on TV? But if the model is a subscription one (think Netflix, Tidal, Spotify, heck, perhaps even YouTube and so on, with amount being fairly distributed to authors), then it just might work.

[–] nico198X@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago

cool, good luck with that. i'm happy the way it is.