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.

  • underline960@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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 called Floatplane).

    • ozoned@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      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.

      • underline960@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 days ago

        revenue share or something for content creators

        Where’s the revenue coming from? The content creators paying to store their own videos?

        • ozoned@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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          2 days ago

          It’s just an idea at the moment. I don’t know if it’s feasbile, practical, or even allowed legally. Hence why I have to talk to my accountant.

          But my idea is to generate income either through donations, funding drives, sponsors in the banner, etc. Or to do like a service where you can upload X amount of videos for $/month.

          Then once we’ve hit break even, assuming we do (yes I know this is a difficult task atm), to share the additional revenue with content creators.

          • underline960@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            2 days ago

            Shouldn’t you have talked to them before starting the non-profit?

            I do not claim to have any expertise (and defo not an accountant), but that sounds backwards to me.

            • ozoned@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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              2 days ago

              I already have some folks interested in joining. I didn’t want it to be attached to me as a personal entity, so no. I don’t think it’s backwards. You can’t ask people to come to a restaurant that doesn’t exist yet.

              Maybe it is. I’ve never run a business. So this might all flop. But I have to try at least. I personally believe the Fediverse is the next evolution of the web. And we need to help it where ever we can.

              • underline960@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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                2 days ago

                I support content creators being able to make a living in the fediverse (without enshittifying it).

                So… good luck. I hope you find a healthy way to go about it.

                • ozoned@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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                  2 days ago

                  Any thoughts, suggestions, etc, I’m always open to hearing it. :-) Hell, the good luck is still a great start. Thank you. We’ll need it.