Unfortunately it’s not as easy as “join and post videos”. Finding an instance willing to host your videos is a massive issue. You might even have to pay a company to spin one up for you, whereas YouTube will just host your videos for free. There’s the obvious sustainability issue, but for a small channel, or someone who doesn’t have cash reserves and is just trying video-making out, no upfront investment is kinda a no-brainer.
Unfortunately it’s not as easy as “join and post videos”. Finding an instance willing to host your videos is a massive issue. You might even have to pay a company to spin one up for you, whereas YouTube will just host your videos for free. There’s the obvious sustainability issue, but for a small channel, or someone who doesn’t have cash reserves and is just trying video-making out, no upfront investment is kinda a no-brainer.
Peertube has direct imports and there are plenty of instances willing to host videos.
Check out this link: https://lemmy.wtf/post/15816115
I’m litteraly running mine on an old tiny mini PC. And as long as you dont abuse instances, hosting videos is as easy as signing up and clickng post.