@chuls @woe2you I have a peertube channel where I publish videos on a regular basis and then I have a few personal channels as well that I publish irregularly on. I do host my own, but I don't do anything fancy with it.

If I look at some of the more well established youtube channels that have a presence on peertube it seems they're getting a lot less views and engagement compared to the evil platform.

I'm seeing more views than I expected when I started vlogging on peertube but I wasn't expecting much to begin with

If you want to make money with your videos then I'm not sure peertube is for you. I believe there's some experiments with monetisation, but peertube is not really a capitalist platform with algorithms and ads and creepy tracking and all that crap.

I've only recently started vlogging and made a conscious choice to only do so on peertube, because I believe peertube provides a future I want to see. Youtube does not. That's the most important thing for me, not engagement and views. You may have different considerations.

@chuls I've been uploading videos to peertube for a year or two now. What do you want to know?

I don't find it clunky and impractical, but I also do not see it as my duty to convince you it is not, so not sure what you're after here.

Little experience with youtube, but that I found clunky and impractical. Nowadays, I don't bother with youtube at all. I don't watch youtube, I don't upload to youtube. I find youtube a bit creepy. If it's not on peertube, I'm not watching it.