oh interesting, I doubt most youtubers know about it though, it should be promoted as much as peertube itself imo

storage issues are very real, if op wants to do this they really need to do it on their own instance

two worst ideas in the universe combined into one, maybe add some ‘cloud’ or ‘blockchain’ to make it even worse

I don’t think most big YouTubers care much about YouTube ad revenue these days, they make so much more money from audience manipulation (e.g. sponsor spots) so the current peertube system would be fine.

I honestly think the biggest current issues are that it costs a lot of money to host peertube because of the high resource requirements (storage costs are compounding as well) and that the network effect means that very few people will use it

it’s probably that they’re not willing to put in the effort to republish every video on peertube when the status quo works fine, or that they don’t know about peertube’s existence.

Louis Rossmann for example definitely cares about FOSS/Free ecosystems is a giant proponent of ad blockers, but doesn’t post on peertube.

applying the Facebook ai training approach to the fediverse I see, I’m 100% sure this won’t villainise the fediverse at all!

there was that one video about covid and 5g where he went crazy, seems like he’s learnt to mask his views since then

It would work but I personally don’t think hosting a personal instance for the fediverse is that practical/safe given how dumb and harsh laws can be, when you don’t have an army of lawyers/strong public support

I really like the EFF’s article on this

yeah, looking at the federation systems it supports is insane and I really want to try it out honestly

from Wikipedia:

Friendica users can connect with others via their own Friendica server, but may also fully integrate contacts from other platforms including Diaspora, Pump.io, GNU social, email, Discourse[9] and more recently ActivityPub (including Mastodon, Pleroma and Pixelfed) and Bluesky[10][11] into their ‘newsfeed’. In addition to these two way connections, users can also use Friendica as a publishing platform to post content to WordPress, Tumblr, Insanejournal[12] and Libertree. Posting to Google+ was also supported until that service was shut down. In addition, RSS feeds can be ingested.[13] Because users are distributed across many servers, their “addresses” consist of a username, the “@” symbol, and the domain name of the Friendica instance in the same manner email addresses are formed. Twitter support was available but was deprecated due to API changes under Elon Musk’s leadership rendering it unusable.