I love the idea, but most servers only host a couple of videos, it’s very hard to find enjoyable content on there and it’s difficult to figure out which server could be a good server to make an account on…
I wouldn’t mind a centralized aggregator of videos and maybe it could have a suggestions algorithm as well or whatever. Not that this would be ideal in the long term but it could help get the videos some views and make more content creators see this as a good alternative. It’s not safe on youtube, people aren’t even saying suicide anymore ffs
Edit: Even some renowned german media have their own peertube servers that they feed with high quality videos, but of course they have basically 0 views. (https://peertube.heise.de/, https://tube.taz.de/)
Yes, for the reasons you mention, plus the difficulty of learning what you’ll find where, and (I hate to say it) the absence of any financial motive for creators or hosts when there are commercial alternatives that will pay you. Because video production and hosting are both relatively expensive the financial side will be even more challenging than for Lemmy and Mastodon hosts.
On yt you get 1$/1k views, that really isn’t a lot.
Imo with more views the creators would earn the same money as on yt with sponsored segments.