I had this idea, because I was wondering if means.tv or nebula.tv could be made part of the peertube network. These two streaming platforms are paywalled, so it seems like it would not be possible. I don’t use peertube, and I don’t really know anything about it, so excuse my ignorance if the answer seems painfully obvious to you.

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I’m no PeerTube expert, but I don’t see how federation and paywalls can mix. If the content on your paywalled instance is federated with non-paywalled instances, why would anyone pay for access to your instance? It would have to be a “walled garden” of paywalled instances that only peer with each other and have some kind of revenue sharing, which doesn’t sound realistic.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I don’t think there is a plugin available for that, it clashes a bit with the Free Culture idea behind Peertube… But there is a visibility setting for videos. You can protect them with a password and give that to paying subscribers. Or set videos as “unlisted” and sell the links on another platform. Or set them to “internal” and sell accounts for your instance.

    • Niquarl@lemmy.ml
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      10 days ago

      I guess the last option you give is essentially what means and nebula do really.