Good day all. I now have a nonprofit called BT Free for Big Tech Free. It is a digital privacy rights, advocacy and consulting nonprofit. We’re currently working on our 501©3.
Our first platform is Peertube, set up at TubeFree.org. We have registrations open, but no upload. If you’d like to upload, we’re looking for quality content on our moderated instance. We can also attempt to help folks get their own set up if folks would prefer to do that. The goal is to start actively building out system to help people move from Big Tech.
This is still a major work in progress, but I’d love to hear folks thoughts on any creators that might be receptive to copying their content to Peertube or any platforms people would be interested in having to move your content to.
I’m investigating some kind of revenue sharing or something with creators. I also want to pass on funds to developers actively working on the Fediverse.
And I have a thought to take donations, but also maybe do like some and charge monthly amounts for more resources. Or do funding drives. Other things. If anyone has suggestions I’d love to hear them.
I might even run our own BT Free community here on Pieces.social if folks would be interested in following that.
I remember someone tried to monetize Mastodon feeds like Substacks or something.
It didn’t last long.
I can’t imagine any way to monetize content other than individual Patreons or collective subscriptions (like Nebula, Curiosity Stream and
whatever Linus Tech Tips thing is calledFloatplane).Definitely a difficult task. Thinking more of a service fee for storage space or faster transcoding maybe. IDK we’re still figuring it out. Also checking with an accountant about maybe being able to do a revenue share or something for content creators. All very much a work in progress though.
Where’s the revenue coming from? The content creators paying to store their own videos?