I used to have an account there and this wasn’t my experience, and I used to be a capitalist back then. I mainly quit because there was nothing to do there, this was before lemmy gained an actual userbase following the reddit api situation when the most popular post on the whole network had one hundred upvotes and eight comments or something.

You’ll be fine if you don’t involve yourself with the political communities, I don’t see why you would considering there still doesn’t seem to be much activity there.

What’s wrong with .ml?

You see they are a multibillion dollar corporation, so them doing it is good actually, it encourages iNnOvAtIoN.

Original method wasn’t FTP?

I give up on having that thing. I’m unemployed, I don’t have any income at all. When I have a well paying job though I’d rather just pay, there are a lot of people I would like to support.

I think it is possible, either by charging money, or by decentralizing like PeerTube. The thing is, it doesn’t matter. YouTubers won’t switch, they just don’t care.

I’m talking from a viewer’s perspective. There is very little I can watch on PeerTube. Now, if I wanted to share videos on the internet as a hobby PeerTube would be the obvious choice. But as a platform to spend time in, it falls short.

It’s not PeerTube’s fault, it’s just sadly Google can walk all over YouTubers all year long and they wouldn’t even consider publishing on multiple platforms. It’s quite telling that only YouTube competetor that got any traction at all is one with a video library mirroring tool so that the channel owner never has to touch it.

PeerTube is a hard sell. Finding things to watch on there is a pain since most instances are trash. Only ones I can think of that are worth using are diode.zone and tilvids. Tilvids is nice but a lot of their material is uploaded from YouTube and the sponsorships are still embedded. If Sponsorblock was configured to work with it though it would be interesting.