I’ve been thinking a bit about this the past several weeks. Here’s how I think we can get useful content on Peertube, quickly:

• Contact creators who make specifically non-monetized content and see if they are willing to post on Lemmy too. New content, and we could offer to post their existing content on Peertube for them
• Early YouTube content. There was some scare a while back about YouTube videos older than three years being removed. Turned out to be a misunderstanding, but it reinforced that Google can remove old content whenever they want, for whatever reason they want.
• Provide continual support (if necessary) for content creators who want to post on PeerTube. For instance, a creator may say “Sure, you can post what you want, just provide attribution. But you’re going to need to post it on there yourself.”

Some things we don’t want to get into:

• Ability for anyone to post. We’d have a moderation nightmare and we don’t have the resources to deal with it. Trolls posting garbage or CSAM. We need the Peertube instance intensely curated/moderated. -Re-posting content that is monetized on other platforms. We don’t have legal resources to deal with takedown complaints. We need explicit permission from creators for everything we upload.

Those are the thoughts I’ve had. I think it leads to an instance with good, curated content. Limited in how it’s used, but I think that’s the best for now.