This is called peertube, and the topmost viewed video on peertube.tv sorted by "Global views" had 57K views in total. Youtube, OTOH, used, and currently uses a

This is called peertube, and the topmost viewed video on peertube.tv sorted by "Global views" had 57K views in total. Youtube, OTOH, used, and currently uses a number of marketing strategies to drive traffic to their site, and paid out ~$10B++ annually for content creators. GP's comment on "Given that things cost money" is not governed by compute, rather, cost of customer acquisition for the platform, and cost of content creation by creatives. Somebody, somewhere, has to pay for these. That is the merit of this battleground.