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Cake day: January 24th, 2025

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  • YouTube was founded by 3 former PayPal employees and bought by Google for $1.65 billion just over a year after its creation. It launched its partner program in 2007 which is when people could start directly making money from the site - but for most big people on the platform, making money was the eventual goal anyway. There was always a plan for YouTube to make oodles of cash and for people to make money making videos on it.

    If PeerTube doesn’t have some type of monetary incentive, nobody except for mild hobbyists making subpar content are going to migrate over.




  • maybe they should need to maintain a certain percentage of high pop instances that federate with them. Basically establishing a standard of trust.

    “At least 80% of instances with over 1,000 active users must federate with you to be a Lemmy starter instance.”

    This guarantees that new users will see the majority of content, and the starter instances won’t be embroiled in federation wars. The % value and pop numbers can change to reduce it down to a manageable number of starter instances.