I’m curious why there is no illegal and nsfw contenton peertube. Like I cannot find any porn there or for example pirated movies. I’m not into looking for this, but why there is no such things? Peertube seems like an easy way to spread such videos, while its not, why so? Is there some censorship in it or what? Hypothetically what if I wanted to make a new pornhub, but federated on peertube? Let’s assume I have the money for servers, making an instance and I have content, is there anything that would make it impossible?
Peertube is run by volunteers who pay with their own money and time for the convenience of others to use it for free. People generally run it to give people social media options outside centralized corporate control.
Why would someone put themselves in legal jeopardy and host pirated content, knowing their arrest is imminent? You can’t hide your site easily.
Porn would be overwhelmingly expensive to run because of the sheer amount of traffic, storage, and numbers of people. It would have legal exposure too and require huge moderation problems, with no return for the effort.
Well, there are many many piracy sites which are not even hidden, if they are why not a peertube instance? How is that different from regular website? And I guess you can earn money on peertube too. Like how much more expensive would porn on peertube be compared to pornhub? You just host the instance with porn, add ads to its videos and voila, yet nobody does it? Why would it have legal exposure? How is it different than regular pornhub?
You’ll eventually get legally bitchslapped. Hard.
Besides what Jerry and CameronDev said, a conjecture on the piracy part, but also could be that a majority of people running Peertube instances and even the people publishing contents for Peertube don’t subscribe to the idea of piracy.
There’s some but they don’t federate for that reason. You just have to find it.
Also as others have said, people just want to host their own videos mostly. Its like old YouTube before Google bought it.
Hmm, it would actually make sense to not federate with illegal content, but with porn? Why not to federate it? Also isn’t it like people just want to publish videos for free and get the audience? Do you know any of those non-federated instances?
What would they want the audience for? The model doesn’t reward views or clickbait, there’s no money to earn.
They could just put ads in their videos and get money from this
