I'm running a private, unfederated node; it works. I watch TILVIDS whenever I can find something on there.

This is not an "if you build it, they will come" scenario,

There's no monetization, so there are almost no content creators.

Creators generally don't do it for free.

Good creators rely on income from the videos to produce higher-quality videos

Youtube: surfaces creators' videos pays creators hosts the videos handles CDN

Peertube: The creator pays to host the video (largely against their ISP's wishes) There's no surfacing There's no payments If you're lucky peertube doesn't need CDN.

Even if they go all patreon, they're still not getting that extra cash, surfacing, and free hosting that youtube does.

We need some kind of FOSS Patreon and to have Peertube do some kind of partner/recommendation engine.

Same, dude. The power users will assume everyone has the time to assemble/learn the skill of setting it up. That being said, it’s on my list of things to figure out one day!

What did you want it to do?

Did you set up a node? Did you promote it & grow a user base? Federate?

There's a lifetime subscription? Maybe I should be considering that too

You can’t really monetize PeerTube

Lots of channels have a link to their Patreon or a tip jar; lots do live reads.

They could still get sponsors and have "ads" during the stream. Though most already do that in addition to YouTube monetization.

It's a federated network of open source servers, anybody can host it. So, I think we are pretty safe. For now.

a certain instance can, but that won't affect the network as a whole that much. you hop over to another instance and done. the developers also could, but it's open source, it can be forked by dedicated server operators. It's also developed by a nonprofit, so there's not abig risk, and thry have a good track record.

I Just run YouTube via my browser with adblock instead of trying to fiddle with an app. And i have another extension so videos doesn't stop playing when i turn off my screen.

Ublock on firefox mobile seems to work well for youtube, never had that break

What is wrong with brave?

I was not aware protube was available again. I used to use that app 10+ years ago but Google sued them.

And they don't pay for you skipping them, which is a win for advertisers, but a loss for Google.

Here it's appearently $17 81 now... Not exactly value!

This is the way

uBlock on Firefox

Repackages and patches an older version of the Android ytb app as well as some other apps. The patches do different things for different apps (usually remove ads).

Read the documentation. Just selected is enough, just make sure you have sponsor block selected. I don't remember if it is selected by default.

I like Revanced. I can listen to stuff even while the screen is locked and have sponsor block and other addons if I want. I think half the time I spend on my phone is watching Youtube and it's heaps better than Firefox with an adblocker on Android.

I get the same thing for free, so it's actually a terrible value for you.