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Start asking your favourite content creators to post on PeerTube.
And while we're at it, stop calling them 'content creators'
EDIT: to clarify, my stance on this is that 'content creator' devalues the human endeavour behind a piece of work (or content, if you will). Instead it's just slop for the machine, and who cares what it is as long as it gets numbers, right?
Why? What else would we call them?
Entertainers. Show women/men.
Showman/woman refers to a pretty specific type of performer, I.E someone who is on stage typically.
Entertainer isn't a label I'd necessarily apply to educational content, for example.
Then call them educators, or presenters... teachers, maybe, depending on the nature of their work
Yes it's much better to use
"comedians/teachers/musicians/educators/entertianers/phonereviewers/sportscommenters/singers/journalists/programmers/documenters/analysts/lawyers/lockpickers/politicians/presenters/trolls"
... than...
"content creators".
If you find someone that fits all those categories, I wouldn't begrudge you that
What do you have against creators as a label? I don't really see these difference myself.
Or just call them Content creators, recognize they don't really produce value for anyone but YT's grab on the attention economy and start living in the real world.
Not all content is entertaining. Someone who makes tutorials I wouldn't call an entertainer. That's why "content creator" is used as a catch all term to cover all of it.
Show women/men sounds like a 70s porno "medical" exploitation film