It's great to see PeerTube development, but I think it will continue to be extremely niche until a good solution for decentralized monetization is found. For both content creators and data hosters.

It's extremely hard to move users accustomed to "free" advertisement-fueled services to the micro-payment model. Content creators actively try to increase revenue by using things like Patreon and membership-only videos, but YouTube ads is still the dominant source for most.

And properly paying for the underlying infrastructure is even more difficult. Filecoin tries to do it, but it's hard to call it a succesfull project.

> extremely niche

Personally, I feel we're slowly moving beyond the mindset that one tool or service needs to "rule them all". I was recently very pleased to discover several online events I took part in were powered by PeerTube, and it just worked.

If an organization is looking to host a stream or offer virtual attendance of sorts, it feels like a no-brainer to pick something like PeerTube and avoid the data/algorithm behemoths.

Well, it is very easy to get video demonetized on YT, it is enough to use one of the forbidden words, like Israel. Another thing are shadowbans. I see more and more people are trying to have side channel for the monetization, like Patreon.