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So who is building their competitor? Any shot in hell at this because of their huge library?

>>sailfa+(OP)
I think it is not just the library but the huge costs associated with storage, encoding and bandwidth. YouTube has innovated significantly to make it as cheap as possible to run such a service and it is likely that it would take an enormous amount of money for any competitor to replicate it.

(Disclaimer: I work at Google but no connection to YouTube)

>>sailfa+(OP)
Peertube is trying. There are a bunch of different servers with some interesting content.

Some is the keyword here. As you say youtube's huge library is a hard thing to compete with. Still I've found some good content there and I make it a point to look at peertube first to reward those who are there with my eyes.

>>sailfa+(OP)
of course there are competitors, but they're either pay-to-play (Vimeo?), or overrun with fash or fash-adjacent content (Rumble, etc.)

>>bluGil+E6
I wish PeerTube had a "flagship" instance like mastodon.social [0] for Mastodon or lemmy.world [1] for Lemmy. The lack of a generalist instance with open sign-ups hinders the adoption.

[0] https://mastodon.social/

[1] https://lemmy.world/

>>sailfa+(OP)
There is no competitor. Video hosting is too expensive.