I opened this to see what "non-toy instance" might refer to. It does have a lot of videos. But the highest view count is just shy of 700, and of the hundreds of

I opened this to see what "non-toy instance" might refer to. It does have a lot of videos. But the highest view count is just shy of 700, and of the hundreds of videos, only maybe a half-dozen have three-digit view counts. It seems like new videos are averaging <10 views. The same videos on YouTube seem to be averaging 6k-10k and the equivalent to the 700 view video has over 7 million views on YouTube. I don't know what the threshold for "toy" versus "non-toy" is in terms of seriousness, but I do know that I uploaded a video for a professor of mine 5 or 6 years ago, it's a 20 minute video of an unimportant speech he gave with bad audio and it is not SEOed at all (no real search terms attached to it) and it has more views than the highest viewcount video on the instance. I see one of two possible interpretations: The first is that given that you choose to upload to both YouTube and a PeerTube instance, no one will watch the PeerTube instance. So PeerTube is just an emergency hedge against something going south on YouTube. Insurance is good, but the premiums in terms of time might be a little high. The second is that it's possible some of those YouTube people wouldn't watch the videos on PeerTube even if they were removed from YouTube. That's a harder problem to solve. I guess I don't intend to undermine the nobility of the effort, just a natural skeptic when it comes to the feasibility of it going anywhere.