A comment from @disrooter from another thread;https://lemmy.ml/post/57418/comment/42932
"As someone who managed a PeerTube instance for a large YouTube channel I have to say the big problem is storage: how are you going to pay for storage that increases with each new video while the income is mostly the same? From a business point of view it’s a suicide.
Keep in mind content creators on YouTube produce many gigabytes/week. In a few years they would have to pay hundreds of dollars each week, even when they pause and not producing any new video, when they are getting less donations and so on.
Why should they invest so much money in a PeerTube instance? Only a premium pay-to-view service can justify it and you really need a high cost-to-produce-and-stream-the-video/minutes-of-video ratio to make it convenient, for example documentaries and not lazy records of hours of online debates." -end quote
This means that if avid content creators wants to host a peertube instance, they will be held back from doing it, because of how expensive it will be.
Just wanna talk about this issue, it deserves It’s own post. let me know what you think.
The main reason why YouTube Creators are not coming to Peertube is as simple as Money. It is not worth it. They may be fine without earnings from YouTube, but I dont think Sponsors will pay the same if their videos are on Peertube.
why? can you elaborate?
Sponsors’ pay depends on the number of views a particular creator gets on an average. Most of the time their contract will specify the number of views required for the payment. YouTube have huge number of users compared to Peertube and thus less views than YouTube. So they wont be getting the same money as they get when on Youtube. So, why move.