You also don't need to paint an entire a peer to peer community with the worst actors on it. There are plenty of normal content creators and instances that are not overrun with that content (see https://tilvids.com/videos/trending)

Also backing up your videos locally will not do anything for helping your fans get access to your content, you will still need to re-host it somewhere. Having it on peer-tube means if your account gets frozen/banned over some bullshit, you can just point your fans to your peer tube channel.

Youtube is such a platform, odysee and that sort of things are, peertube is not.

Peertube is the free software anyone can use to host video content in a decentralized and federated manner. It's akin to what the personal blogs were on the web a few years back

For the federated part, peertube is part of the fediverse through activitypub.

some real world example of peertube usage: KDE https://conf.tube/accounts/kde/video-channels PINE64: https://tilvids.com/a/pine64tilvids/video-channels Krita: https://share.tube/a/kritafoundation/video-channels Free Software Foundation: https://framatube.org/a/fsf/video-channels

"... a platform infested with bigotry, consipracies, scams, misinformation, graphic violence, etc..."

Thought for a second there this was referring to YouTube and the videos its recommendation algorithms present. Heck the web is filled with this sort of garbage, just peruse the .com zone file. The majority of websites are junk. Yet we still "support" the web, a "platform" infested with the worst humanity has to offer.

Yeah it feels like Youtube algorithms generated an entire new generation of neo-nazis and reptilian/illuminati-concerned conspiracists but now that Youtube is (sometimes) starting to take a stand against its own children, the FLOSS ecosystem should be responsible for the monstrosity produced by that multi-billion dollar corporation?!

Source: i've stopped youtube entirely years ago because every time i was watching some interesting content (including radical politics) it would always try to push nazi/illuminati content to me.

And yet how many times does some tech journalist/tech worker/tech worshipper tell us that Big Tech knows us better than we know ourselves. Maybe advertisers believe it. Even if Big Tech knows what computer users want, it does not mean that is what they will try to serve to them.

I have scripts that allow me to see which results in a YouTube search are increasing in views over time. The worst videos, with high view counts, that are the least responsive to the search terms (if even responsive at all) are being incessantly promoted by YouTube and we can see the the high view counts continue to increase day after day, for years.

So don't upload videos to YouTube at all?

One mans misinformation and conspiracy theories is another mans truth. The exact reason I would use something like Peertube is the risk that my view is somehow not in line with the narrative and the content is removed.