Running an actively used Peertube instance is a lot more expensive than, for example, a Lemmy instance. Videos take up a lot more storage than text. Not only that, the videos also need to be processed and then served. Who will keep paying for the monthly server bills?
Then there's monetization. Most YouTube creators are there because they make a living out of YouTube. There is no such thing on PeerTube. They would need to solely rely on donations.
The ideal PeerTube network would be where every somewhat big content creator ran their own instance and maybe a few general instances for smaller content creators that are regularly donated to.
If YouTube ever gets killed by Google, don't expect many people to come here.
Are you the owner of the fediverse report? If so, can you update the link for FediDB? It seems like they moved to fedidb.com. And also, I'm not sure if it's only me, but new.fedidb.org does not exist for me.
I strongly believe any discussion around federation/centralization should be avoided when bringing in new users. They will figure it out themselves and if they
I disagree. Most won't.
It's better to tell them about federation and decentralization before they join and start asking why there are duplicate communities with the same name (I've seen people asking similar questions about the absolute basics of federation here before in some communities). Not in detail, but enough to give them the basic idea.
And if they find it "difficult", then we already prevented someone from wasting storage space when they would leave the fediverse after a few days anyway.
I used podman. Though you probably can use Ansible, if you want it simple.
There are also a few container management UIs like yunohost that let you deploy Lemmy with a click, but last I checked, it used a very outdated version of Lemmy. There's also elest.io.
Depending on third party services for such stuff is generally bad. In fact, even the dev of Lemmyverse agrees with this:
I think that Lemmy needs some more discovery features, but I'm not sure that using an external website is the right way to implement it - That installs a centralized component to the system and also a single point of failure for discovery. - https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3192#issuecomment-1597929774
The update cycle seems to be pretty unstable, but it definitely does not only get updated every year. The last update was about a month ago. And the update before that 2 months.
You can install some Linux distro and then install a docker management web UI like coolify. Requires little terminal knowledge. Though you should learn the terminal.
Any errors? Can you tell us what you input into the fields when creating a new community? Did you try another frontend (Photon, Tesseract, etc.)?
Oh and also, do not input any emojis into the community name field. That can't contain such things, only a subset of ASCII afaik. The display name can contain them.
What does "clout" mean?