chromodynamic

Some good points I hadn't considered!

Got me thinking about how YouTubers get money. According to a quick web search, YT pays $0.01 to $0.03 per view. So if you release 10 videos a month, you made $0.10 per viewer. But Patreon memberships are typically around $5.00 a month, equivalent to $0.50 per view in the same scenario. Of course Patreon will take a cut, but it is still a lot more money.

So, if a lot of your viewers think your channel is good enough to donate to, ad money basically becomes an afterthought. In this case, the only advantage of YT over PT is discovery, i.e. the number of viewers likely to find your videos in the first place (but there's also more competition on YT, so...)

Does that affect interaction? Perhaps this is a difference between platforms? When I signed up to PieFed, I chose some interests and it automatically subscribed me to various communities, some of which had the same name but different instances (for example five different communities named "Games"). I don't know much about how community discovery works on any of these platforms to be honest.

Well, on Reddit people often do create new communities for the same topic because they don't like the rules/culture/mods of the original one. So would you say that's the same reason for choosing a different community on the Fediverse?

I'm not trying to make any argument either way, I'm just curious why people made the choices they did. For example, I saw someone from lemmy.world posted on programmer_humor@programming.dev even though programmerhumor@lemmy.world also exists. I'm wondering how they chose the first option over the second.