[AstixAndBelix]

That's like asking how Signal plans on getting nice people to talk to. Peertube is just a self-hosted platform that allows for bandwidth-efficient video sharing, it's up to the single instance owners to care about publicizing their stuff.

[hgsgm]

Publicizing isn't the challenge. Monetizing is.

[jehb]

I understand your point, but it's worth pointing out that for many of us, "difficult to monetize" is a feature, not a bug.

[AstixAndBelix]

It's open source. You could put Google Adsense API calls in every nook and cranny of the platform if you like. Or any other ad provider, for the matter

[wkat4242]

But then what's the point anymore?

[AstixAndBelix]

The point of what? The point of PeerTube is to leverage the p2p nature of torrents to allow people to host video-sharing platforms for a fraction of the cost. If you want to monetize your instance then why not?

[wkat4242]

Ok I thought the idea was to avoid Google's espionage. Once you start monetizing you will get all that right back.

What's the point of self hosting if you still need Google?

[AstixAndBelix]

Why Google? I explicitely said you could embed any ad provider ( or even use your own personal method for distributing ads).

Maybe you don't like that, but that's what software freedom looks like

[mariusor]

Why do you think that monetizing is more of a challenge when you own the platform that you publish on?