How do those platforms survive though? Any media centric federated platform will require a lot of funding if it’s successful. Grants and donations only take them so far. So to avoid serving ads that probably means subscription fees. Is there revenue sharing for creators? Will the platforms be designed for either or does each instance have to roll their own? There’s a lot of unanswered questions. All the things that made YouTube dominant required a lot of investment, especially in hardware. No peertube instance will ever be half as efficient as YouTube is behind the scenes. Which means their costs will be way higher.