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PeerTube: <a href="https://video.canadiancivil.com/a/paige" rel="nofollow ugc">@paige@video.canadiancivil.com</a></p>
<p dir="auto">The Montreal-based advocacy journalist at <a href="https://canadiancivil.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Canadian Civil</a> who makes videos about cities and urbanism, and co-founder of <a href="https://fedihost.co" rel="nofollow ugc">FediHost</a>, a fully managed fediverse hosting platform, breaks down how independent creators actually get paid and why the Fediverse needs its own answer.</p>
<p dir="auto">Ads don't fund independent journalism. Patreon does, and it sits in every surveyed creator's top three income sources. But Patreon is closed to ActivityPub, Apple keeps eroding its features, and its 10% cut gets expensive at scale. A working demonstration of how a Ghost + PeerTube + Stripe stack replicates the Patreon feature set, self-hosted, with full ownership of the audience, plus the math showing why larger creators should already be considering the move.</p>
<p dir="auto">Le journaliste engagé basé à Montréal chez <a href="https://canadiancivil.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Canadian Civil</a> qui réalise des vidéos sur les villes et l'urbanisme, et co-fondateur de <a href="https://fedihost.co" rel="nofollow ugc">FediHost</a>, une plateforme d'hébergement fediverse entièrement gérée, explique comment les créateurs indépendants se font réellement payer et pourquoi le Fediverse a besoin de sa propre réponse.</p>
<p dir="auto">La publicité ne finance pas le journalisme indépendant. C'est Patreon qui le fait, et il figure dans les trois principales sources de revenus de chaque créateur sondé. Mais Patreon reste fermé à ActivityPub, Apple grignote ses fonctionnalités, et sa commission de 10 % devient coûteuse à grande échelle. Une démonstration concrète de la façon dont une pile Ghost + PeerTube + Stripe reproduit les fonctionnalités de Patreon, auto-hébergée, avec pleine propriété de l'audience, ainsi que les chiffres qui expliquent pourquoi les créateurs plus établis devraient déjà envisager la migration.</p>


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