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Peertube is f****** amazing, But your average windows user isn't going to be able to manage the hosting. And your average ISP blocks standard hosting ports. Then it also requires the users to manage their own monetization.
It's not undoable but it is kind of a steep slope.
Everyone doesn't have to host their own instance.
They don't, but how long do you think a free instance is going to last when it starts seeing serious volume. Video storage in the cloud is expensive AF.
Odysee did/does something interesting where if one uses the desktop client, the video gets streamed and cached, and then seeded back over a configurable amount of time. I could see creator's communities being self-sustainable this way.
Odyssey was a technical failure. They pushed pretty hard to get the community into it but once it reached even a slightly elevated usage, They had to start standing up servers to back the swarm.
I believe it can work but they didn't crack the nut on that unfortunately, At least not before the SEC brok in and riped them a new one for selling securities basically destroyed the backing company.