Fediverse

I was unaware you could disable that until now, I haven't taken a deeper look into peertube in a while so it may have been before the feature. They added the client toggle about 2 years ago

That does make me more positive on it. I did some testing now visiting instances and it does appear the vast majority have it enabled by default (everyone I looked at) and the warning message about it only appears when you're watching a video so too little too late for me. The warning message is also just a tiny bar along the bottom, I didn't even notice it for a while and I thought there wasn't any warnings, if you fullscreen right after starting the video you'd never see it.

Definitely better than I initially stated but I still think the P2P part needs more explicit opt in with the possibility of throttling connections if they decline to be fair to the admins.

The only other alternative is something like https://odysee.com/ which is based on LBRY a crypto so not exactly my 1st choice but it does have the benefit of offloading the P2P portion to the service hoster. Modern video content is so large that it makes serving and storage of the content a massive overhead so I understand the need for P2P for sure but I think it should be more explicit in how it happens.