@atomicpoet I'm not "convinced it can't be done"; I'm genuinely *unsure* if federation, *as it currently works*, is the best way to publish and consume video online given the high cost of storage, the inefficiency of duplicating it across servers, and the fact that for many creators videos are much less ephemeral than short text posts and therefore migration and archiving (where fedi currently falls short) are even more important concerns.

I agree we need to break free from YouTube, Instagram, etc., but I do not think ActivityPub is necessarily the only way it can be done.

And l think people should not hurry to jump to the next shiny new platform without putting in their due diligence on who runs it, how the project is governed, and how they plan on not repeating the worst mistakes of the last platform.

neville park Thank you—this reply is much more constructive and far less dismissive than what you said earlier.

I agree that thousands of solo PeerTube instances aren’t viable. It’s not affordable, and it’s not sustainable for creators or admins.

That’s exactly why I’m advocating a different model: a federated video co-op where people pool their resources and become member-owners of the service. Collective ownership solves the storage and sustainability problem in a way scattered solo servers can’t.

This is what we’re building with the Federated Video Co-op Initiative, and the first service we plan to support is PeerTube.