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Honestly, I just want instances that focus on niche interests. An instance for sports with communities of different leagues, instances for pc gaming with communities for amd/intel/Nvidia, etc
That way, main instances with more generic context like lemmy.ml or beehaw dont get clogged
A really vibrant YouTube alternative. I'd love to never use a Google service like that again.
I've never used peertube, but I heard it's getting pretty good.
However, after considering hosting a peertube instance, I can see what a large actor such as Google can bring to the table for resource intensive services, such as video hosting
100% I don't know how (if) a federated system could really handle the volume of data that YouTube does.