To have some sort of viable fediverse alternative to YouTube, the developers of it would have to abandon some of the free software principles that current fediverse platforms uphold. There needs to be a way to monetize to attract creators and get people to host the servers

[–] miniu@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Free in software should stand for freedom, not money. We need better ways for financing such software projects and creators making content on them.

[–] jlou@mastodon.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah free as in freedom not as in price.

The closest anyone's come to a mechanism that would allow efficient financing of public goods like free software is quadratic funding. Unfortunately, there are unsolved issues with collusion and identity verification

[–] chocobo13z@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

If it were possible, I'd like to continually donate a given sum of money to an account that split the proceeds between the content creators and the people hosting. Granted, while I'm unemployed, the best I can do currently would be to donate hosting directly