I love the idea, but most servers only host a couple of videos, it’s very hard to find enjoyable content on there and it’s difficult to figure out which server could be a good server to make an account on…
I wouldn’t mind a centralized aggregator of videos and maybe it could have a suggestions algorithm as well or whatever. Not that this would be ideal in the long term but it could help get the videos some views and make more content creators see this as a good alternative. It’s not safe on youtube, people aren’t even saying suicide anymore ffs
Edit: Even some renowned german media have their own peertube servers that they feed with high quality videos, but of course they have basically 0 views. (https://peertube.heise.de/, https://tube.taz.de/)
Where did you try to upload? PeerTube (the software) is very mature and functions just fine.
Probably just some dude’s instance, I probably found it on a list or something of open nodes.
And I’m sure it runs fine, but does it handle long videos with low views?
Yes.
Great! In that case how do I find an instance that’s accepting new users and large files?
Look at pinned post at !peertube@lemmy.wtf