The base concept of "everyone can host their own instance (within a few limitations)" is how most of the internet actually works. HTTPS, Email, DNS, etc. - all

The base concept of "everyone can host their own instance (within a few limitations)" is how most of the internet actually works. HTTPS, Email, DNS, etc. - all of those things allow pretty much everyone to host their own, individual servers. This kind of openness is very central to the success of the internet. Large corporations (Google, Facebook, etc.) consolidating huge amounts of that into single platforms concentrates a lot of power in a single hand, which does create some very real concerns about the internet becoming less and less open. PeerTube is *NOT* a video sharing platform like YouTube is. PeerTube is just a piece of software that allows everyone and their grandma to create their own video sharing platform similar to YouTube. So, basically all those many different PeerTube instances are mini-YouTubes each. Since YouTube is a near-monopoly, it's sort of unavoidable that a lot of PeerTube instances that do crop up, are catering to those who got banned from YouTube - often for very valid reasons. And that's why you end up with a lot of offensive content. That's not a built-in flaw of the software though. It's rather a problem that's caused by the current situation of YouTube being so extremely dominant, that those people who've been banned from YouTube end up basically being the only niche audience that remains untapped.