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MakerTube, a donation supported PeerTube instance (mastodon.social)

submitted 1 year ago by poVoq@slrpnk.net to c/diy@slrpnk.net

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Seems interesting as a YT alternative for show-casing DIY projects.

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[–] shepherd@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's an About section, saying the instance has just under 1,000 videos, and is using about 250 gigs right now. (If you include federated videos, then it's 63,000 videos though lol.)

I agree with you here, it sure looks like being a new video platform is a very difficult game to play. And asking for people to donate to MakerTube specifically rather than any of the myriad of other peertube platforms seems like a very uphill battle too lol.

I do think that it would be good for all of us to get used to contributing to the operations costs of platforms where the users aren't the product. But yeah, there's definitely going to be growing pains lol.

[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Absolutely, I already donate to my three most used Lemmy servers and have actually been looking to get into PeerTube so I'd have no problem donating there too. Problem is I just don't know if my couple of dollars a month would equal a net loss.

Will come back and update this thread once I've found out!

[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So, update. I talked to the MakerTube admin over on Mastodon and they admitted that funding is pretty much always going to be a problem especially if popular creators join and make big videos. But they seem to be giving it their best shot, and I figured, what have I got to lose other than a bit of time and a few dollars in donations? So I'm giving it a whirl.

Just did a write-up of my impressions of the whole thing over at !peertube@lemmy.ml if you're at all invested!

[–] shepherd@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's that write-up for future readers!

I was about to reply to that write up here but I'll reply in the correct comment section lol.

[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never know whether adding the direct link will just annoy people on different instances, haha, may have a slight overthinking issue there. But thanks for adding it! :D

[–] shepherd@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I'm on kbin.social and for some reason we don't accept !community, only @community here. I just always link 'cause it's so hard to find stuff lmao.

One day we'll have truly seamless (non-janky) content conversion.

[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

TIL! Thank you for the tip :)