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A free software to take back control of your videos

Peertube is an open, federated alternative to Youtube without advertising or tracking. On this site, you can find a good Peertube instance, with good rules, good moderation and most importantly a friendly community.

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Should PeerTube add a built‑in "Join" button for channels, similar to YouTube? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by Teknevra@lemmy.world to c/peertube@lemmy.ml

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I know that channel creators on PeerTube can add links to Buy Me a Coffee, Ko‑fi, Patreon, etc., but there’s no native, in‑house way for a casual viewer to directly support a creator from within PeerTube itself.

Do you think PeerTube should implement a built‑in “Join” button that would handle payments/subscriptions internally, without sending the user to a third‑party site?

Potential Pros:

Easier for casual viewers to support creators without leaving the platform.

Could help smaller creators earn more from one‑time donations or memberships.

Might make PeerTube feel more polished and competitive with YouTube.

Potential Cons:

Could add complexity to moderation and hosting for instance admins.

Might raise legal or tax issues for different countries.

Could centralize financial control, which goes against PeerTube’s decentralized ethos.

What do you think — worth adding, or better to leave this to third‑party services?

This could also be an optional feature that instance admins can enable or disable, so it still fits within the federation model.

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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The OP wanted a way to donate to creators, and Monero is a good way to donate to creators.

The creator would obviously have to add their Monero address in order for the button to show up anyway.

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

From what I understood the OP was the point that the creators of PeerTube would create a way of payment and then distribute the money to the instances and to the creators, similar to what YouTube is doing. They said that they're aware of the possibility to add "Buy Me a Coffee, Ko‑fi, Patreon, etc.," buttons but wanted a native way of doing it in PeerTube.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

From op

I know that channel creators on PeerTube can add links to Buy Me a Coffee, Ko‑fi, Patreon, etc., but there’s no native, in‑house way for a casual viewer to directly support a creator from within PeerTube itself.

I read this as support the creators, not the instance.

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes. Anyway it's not so easy to do that for farmasoft because of all the legal issues.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

With Monero, there is no legal issues because it's directly from the viewer to the creator with no middleman in between. The instance isn't facilitating the payment, framasoft isn't facilitating the payment.

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I think that makes more sense than what OP is looking for. The problem is only that almost nobody has an account there and set up payment like a lot of people already do with a google account for YouTube Join.

But still It's more reasonable than Farmasoft developing something just for PeerTube.

[–] Teknevra@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

That sounds interesting.

Perhaps a potential third-party plugin, that instance admins could potentially decide whether or not to allow,