Well, I think the world isn’t some city builder where you can erase something to replace it with something else… We can see it right here, even with a large migration reddit will not be replaced instantly. Even Mastodon didn’t replace twitter…

• the p2p function in Peertube is shared with viewer’s browsers so the storage needed will be shared by everyone. Or I’m missing something,
• datacenters will still be useful indeed, but maybe for things we collectively acknowledge are important,
• Peertube isn’t made for raw footage and I never said so, so I don’t see your point here,
• do you think if a successful YouTube content creators get a mirror for his content on Peertube, everyone of his viewers would switch instantly? I don’t think so, and even if that’s the case what’s the big deal? Some lags that’s all,
• old tech is less efficient but a new program running on old tech will be much more efficient (because relaying on less efficient hardware).

I talk about the benefits of using Peertube.

I’d say I can say “it’s possible” and you can say “it won’t work” forever but we will not know until tested enough. The problem with the doubt posture is that it is often a excuse to just do nothing.

Also you only question the technical side, so I’m assuming you’re not so pleased with YouTube either. What’s the harm trying something else ? We only know what we are losing in this kind of situations anyway…