/u/d3rr and /u/magnora7, I don't know if you saw my ideas two comments up, but they might be worth noting as some fundamentals if you were to ever consider starting over/migrating/evolving/whatever.

Just watching a Styx livestream video it suddenly occurred to me that there's a potentially super simple solution that's been staring me in the face. No, not Mr. 666, I mean a concept. Perhaps Mr. Moneybags Investor /u/fschmidt can run the numbers on this as an investment.

First, it's common knowledge that in addition to boatloads in advertisements YouTube takes 30% of all superchats (while soft censoring denying ads and super chats to "objectionable" content and/or simply shadow banning them).

Styx mirroring his content across four, stated that he already had too many platforms to investigate more (Mastodon, etc.).

Here's my pitch: Not just a news aggregator forum like SaidIt, but also 1) a platform aggregator (some kind of GUI to set up bots that will automatically post their content linked to the various diverse platforms - super simple for the content creators with better things to do, yet still has deep optional customization), and 2) an income aggregator (some kind of income accounting and management system, including as many currencies and cryptocurrencies as is necessary - critically transparent and verifiable at every level). These 3 aggregators could be developed separately but designed to cross integrate or be combined which to me seems like a security risk.

Naturally, they would be prime targets so federating and security would be even more critically essential than ever. Here's the best part: Every content creator with an account would need to host their own little corner of the federated blockchain, though it would make more sense to keep their financial stuff on a private server, they could have a second server that is more robust and publicly active to actually participate. A Raspberry Pi 400 is only ~$70-$100, is extremely portable, and could be their private wallet with backup options. A Pi might not make the best robust public server, or maybe it might enough if there are enough out there. Or maybe a non-corporate-OS phone is good enough.

I could go on with my science fiction, but that's the nutshell idea. Of course it should be open-source. And of course the percentage cut that the 3 aggregators would get could be discussed in the forums and such. Typically agents get 10-20% which is still much better than YouTube, though perhaps 3-5% is simply enough, leaving more to be taken by those who are federation mirrors and/or IPFS archives. I'll let you do the math.

Imagine... a triumvirate federation.