Fedibridge

I don't mean to be rude or shut down your idea, I'm sorry. But I think it would be difficult to find a successful strategy for growing peertube without understanding the challenges involved.

Personally I think you might have better luck asking smaller youtube creators who don't make videos as their only source of income. Many of those folks are still frustated with YouTube (though it's less of a big deal if it's not their income), and have more reason to consider a platform where they'd be publishing things just for the sake of putting stuff out there

But asking top creators on YouTube to consider peertube as a potential future option is a really difficult sell if it fundamentally can't provide them with income they're currently making by publishing on YouTube. It might mean they don't have to worry about demonitization or copyright strikes or whatever, but there's no reason those upsides would really matter much if they can't make a living there. For top creators YouTube is a job, and a demanding one at that.

I think it'd be cool to see peertube consider ways the platform could be monetized if it could be done well, with instances being able to enable it. I'd love to see optional, maybe opt in advertizing with robust controlls for users and creators. But those things are all extremely complicated to implement organizationally without money warping the nature of the project, and from what I know about framasoft I don't think they would ever even consider anything along those lines.

And the product of that is that peertube can likely only really be a place to host videos that people just wanna put out into the world for their own entertainment. It can't be a platform for the same kind of high effort, highly produced content that a lot of folks watch on YouTube.

Patreon is kind the only thing that could fill that gap for creators, maybe that helps make it a more real consideration, I don't know. Patreon/merch is a huge part of income for content creators. I'd love to be wrong and see a couple big creators start publishing on peertube too

I’m just a lurker in these things, but it seems to me that what you need is a way to find YouTubers who don’t want to be paid, who think their message is important and who don’t rely on video revenue. Who seek new communities to grow their audience.

Religion of all types fit this bill. Especially the aggressive sects of Christianity, Islam and Hindu . Especially the nationalist sects