Comment by jlaternman
8 hours ago
I agree with this sentiment 100%.
Probably the speculative FOSS project I'm most excited to think about is an open alternative to YouTube – a universal video hosting platform or network, free from commercial incentives baked into the platform.
I've only started to think about this recently so haven't explored whether it's viable to e.g. run all video hosting in a torrent-like, distributed way, or perhaps a Mastodon-like model, but the goal seems like one of the best things free software could aim to achieve right now. YouTube needs to die, and it needs an alternative that could conceivably kill it.
It seems you're talking about PeerTube.
peertube is cool but it won’t be able to kill YouTube in a million years
This is not necessary. It can simply provide an alternative, free platform for people who need it.