Peertube offers neither much exposure, nor any money, so why? Why spend time making videos for a very few people who you will never meet?

As I said, just for fun. Not everyone creates art for money or reputation. Obviously you do need someone to pay the bills though, hence everything Google has done with youtube over the years.

People make youtube videos because it generates income

It wasn’t always this way, plenty of people made great youtube videos just for fun before there was any kind of “monetisation”. Sure, there weren’t the highly polished big budget videos (which would probably have been on tv back in the day), but there also wasn’t all the like-and-subscribe sponsored shit which makes the internet so unpleasant nowadays.

YouTube is good because there’s money coming in and going out

So yeah, I can’t disagree with this enough!

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