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I don't think it's the software that's keeping it in the background. The instances I visit have seemed very functional. I think it's the simple fact that hosting large amounts.of video is really expensive in terms of storage space, bandwidth, and processor time (for transcoding). For a recreational self-hosting individual, it's just too much.
tchncs.de hosts instances for tons of different fediverse services and they say peertube is the most expensive to host, by far.
Thats very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
That and without an income source, you can't pay content creators, so you can't attract them to the platform in the first place. People dislike YouTube for running ads, but the ads are what pays for the videos.
No, our data pays for the videos. The ads are for profit.
our data is used for the ads
And the data is used for... You guessed it: ads.
Its also quite confusing to use and hard to find interesting videos.
If I were to be a content creator, I would host my own peertube to serve it and make sure it's available. I would also share it with people I know and trust, and generally use it for my personal use so it caches what I watch and whatnot.
But hosting videos for other people? Yeah no, apart from being hugely expensive, it's also a legal nightmare because someone will start posting shows and movies on it and I just don't feel like taking the legal burden of some random anonymous users.
Same reason my Lemmy is invite only, I can be somewhat confident my users will behave because I know them all (and also legally, I can just send the cops their way if they do bring legal trouble).