Some of those channels have videos complaining quite loudly about youtube, some are tech channels that do talk about the fediverse sometimes, some aren’t even aware of the fediverse but might be interested.
It might be worth drafting a message that explains that it won’t cost them anything to just sign up to an instance mirror their videos to peertube as a first step. For more technical channels, they can setup their own peertube instance and mirror there - together or alone.
There might be more incentives, but that’s for the community to discuss. What do you think?
Sure. Spread some awareness, that’s never a bad thing. I’ll doubt the top creators will do it, though. So don’t be disheartened. A lot of them do this as a living. Their goal is to pick the platform that has the biggest reach, so they’ll have a big audience. And the platform that maximises their income. Which seems to currently be Youtube. I’ve seen some creators experiment with alternatives like Odysee, back in the days. But that didn’t really take off. They also don’t have any big incentive to join Peertube, either. At least that’s my take. I don’t want to be negative or anything. I just think that’s the way it is. So I think it’d be a good thing to spread awareness. But one shouldn’t expect too much from the top creators. It’s more likey we’re going to convince someone who is nice, but doing it for fun (or something like that).