Are content creators we already know expected to start their own servers? Or will there be a general mega instance for everyone to post to.
Honestly - both?
Good examples are going to be Floatplane and Nebula for the single-content-creator platform and the group of creators platforms.
There’s no real reason you can’t build a platform and require someone to pay you to have access, and it seems to have been successful for both groups.
Video hosting is expensive, but it 's not prohibitive and a group of creators could certainly come up with a useful platform and self-host it and still be profitable.
Now, the question is, of course, if peertube is the right choice for that and if it offers anything they’d need, but that’s a different discussion.
I just dont see it happening at all. Youtube may be too big to fail unless its somehow broken off of google into a nonprofit or something. An alternative I would be happy with is us switching to the internet archive. But im sure im alone in that. I also think posting videos will soon cost money to upload rather than being spammed nonstop as data hosting costs skyrocket.
