but early on, I'd like to try and make the initial business model define the mission and incentive structure of the company. "We only make money when you do" creates a very strong incentive for the organization to make you money. And I think a strong business model provides a strong foundation for an open ecosystem.
Though it may be the case that $X/time_unit plans are better for the ecosystem/video-makers as a whole; so it's definitely something we'd consider in that case as well.
While I agree with this in principle, I look at all of the people who happily put content up for free on YouTube with no intention or desire to monetize. In fact, there was just someone on HN's frontpage today[1] that moved from YouTube to PeerTube because of the fact that YouTube was going to start putting ads on their free videos.
"We make money when you do, but we'll charge you rather than going down the ads route" :)
[1]: https://solvespace.com/forum.pl?action=viewthread&parent=375...
Oh, that's a good point. If I understand correctly, you're worried that the companies desire to "make you money" might mean one day putting ads on your videos without you really wanting that at all.
I agree that's a problem with our incentive structure, I'll have to think about that some more, thank you for bringing that up.
I think there's a bit of a counter incentive from the video-maker's ability to just pack up and leave to a different tool if they'd like.
But I think we'd need to create some stronger incentives in place to prevent "ads on your videos without your consent/desire" from happening.
