So, given AI is destroying YT, if you’re any sort of a creator at all, even if you just have some random posts from years ago that you uploaded with no intention of getting popular, you really should move your stuff to PeerTube, ideally on a self-hosted instance if you have the hardware to spare, while you still can, because things are only going to get worse for YT.
Even Odysee is a decent alternative if you want more traction, but PeerTube is more ideal as an alternative platform due to having the ability to self-host an instance there and have complete control of your content and presence down to owning the infrastructure you’re posting on.
I love it, the people who moved away from reddit to something nobody used always have such a hard time with the idea of using peertube. I get it, not everyone can host one for various reasons, so what then? let’s just give up I guess and let Google win? Every time I see a peertube post the comments are flooded with people that just wanna be negative and say there is no solution. If you really can’t in any possible way host or use someone else’s peertube then that’s not your fault. But stop complaining about YouTube if you won’t even entertain the true self hostable alternatives.
The issue is that video creation is a lot more labor intensive and YouTube does two things for creators that PeerTube doesn’t. First, the algorithm builds an audience. Cutting out YouTube or another video social media site is going to make audience creation a lot harder. Second, ad revenue from social media sites are greater than zero. It may not be a lot of money, but it is something.
On the flip side, there is nothing inherent to PeerTube or similar platforms which will filter AI slop.