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What I don't get is why spend the effort dealing with YTs shit just to increase their userbase when we should be focusing on shifting people away from YT and into decentralized solutions like PeerTube anyways?
The people who-would shift away are users, not creators and currently the major issue with peertube is lack of content. Along with the fact that finding an instance which allows for signups and is federated with good, discoverable content is impossible currently.
I keep trying though and eventually I'm sure I'll be able to switch
I signed up to the main instance ran by the French company. It appeared that a single video hadn't been uploaded in 2 years and I couldn't find how to see videos from other instances.
The entire service needs a redesign if people are going to switch.
Because Google is eating the monumental costs of hosting and delivering video content. The cost of maintaining client apps is negligible in comparison. YouTube is not going anywhere unless Google deems it so, or enshittifies it enough to drive users away.
Given their extreme efforts to monetize YouTube, I’d be surprised if it was still operating at a loss.
None of the large creators, whether they're corporate or not, would ever switch over to something like PeerTube without financial incentive. Even if they did, I guarantee they'd end up killing the decentralized nature of something like PeerTube by having the largest instance and then disallowing any form of federation to ensure you are forced to their instance.
YouTube has essentially created a monster. Every idiot out there can upload unending amounts of super high rez footage. Even if everyone who was capable of handling their own hosting spun up a node, we'd never be able to handle 1/10 of 1% of YouTubes daily upload and that's not even mentioning the storage requirements.
The big guys aren't going to want to host over there because there's no money in it.
As i always said, people will go joyfully if someone can selfhost WHOLE YouTube content out there, YouTube became modern library of Alexandria while main page is shit and giggles, there's a lot of useful tutorials and education videos