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The other thing to keep in mind is that youtube (and twitch, and shudders quora), with all its problems, does share revenue with creators on the platform, instead of treating them as free labor.
I would love to see it, but I dont think we are there yet. No impetus to switch combined with much more expensive tech. I would also antipate dmca to turn the whole thing into a mess. But one day we'll get there hopefully.
Yeah, that was why my comment was more aimed at personal hosting, as opposed to a shared one.
Say, I don't know, a known figure like jackscepticeye (to name a big streamer) hiring a server and creating his own instance of a fediverse software that allows him to host all his videos, where he gets to decide which ad-provider to use, how to control subscription tiers, and so on.
Even a smaller creator could do this, as costs would scale with popularity but so would revenue.
I'm not sure if PeerTube can do this, or if it would have to be a completely different software, though.
As for DMCAs, that would be the responsibility of each creator, of course. They would no longer have the "protection" of corporations like Youtube and Twitch.
Self-management is a big ordeal.
It's one of those pro/con things each person must weigh upon when making a decision: "sure, Twitch/Youtube takes a piece of the pie and gets pushy with copyright, but I don't have to deal with servers or DMCAs or paying the hosting directly".