I was making a few thousand dollars there, so I’m not sure how I can earn the same amount here, who’s supposed to pay, and why I would need to pay to someone for my content
Unfortunately, clients for this are being developed but not really there yet. Video hosting is expensive, P2P solutions exist but require work to get integrated with nostr. If you want to support development of these critical features, consider donating to opensats https://opensats.org/funds/nostr