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Oregon Coast Trail And here's what's causing my anxiety about joining a #PeerTube instance for my music stuff. I sift through and find an instance that fits my needs, head to the "About" page and see this:
HOW LONG WE PLAN TO MAINTAIN THIS INSTANCE
"Currently plan to run this instance for the next year or so at least, depending on usage and financials."
I would assist with those financials, but it still doesn't fill me with any confidence that it's going to stick around...
@killyourfm My thinking is that you should firstly host your own content on your own website, and then disseminate it out from there. If your external "sharing and discoverability network" goes down, accessibility to your content is always guaranteed. Syndicate out the discoverability, in-house the source of truth. Does that make any sense?
@AdamBishop 
It DOES make sense...
But how does one host GBs of video data on a cheap self-hosted wordpress site without a) going broke doing it and b) providing viewers anything resembling decent download speed?
@killyourfm @AdamBishop It's kind of one or the other, especially if you have a global audience and want to look into CDNs, etc. There is a reason people offload the "video" portion to something like youtube via embedded players. I used to have to do this for a snowboard brand pre-youtube (adoption) days, and even then, the $ was not small. But with that said, I have not evaluated costs in recent history. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@bashfulrobot @AdamBishop Thanks guys. I'm just gonna go create a Cloudron install on Linode, and then install their PeerTube app and see what happens. LIVING DANGEROUSLY!
@killyourfm I'm certainly no expert in this, I'm just thinking aloud. I realise that it's a question of scalability - the more videos you have and the more viewers you have, the faster downloads you need, the more it costs, and the more it is potentially monetisable. But it's the same problem for any host. You can only scale to what you can afford. Perhaps slightly lower quality vids, fewer vids, only the last four vids hosted at a time, a rotation of vids (this week's vid from the archive)?
@killyourfm A cheaper alternative is a static rather than dynamic site, e.g. Hugo, Jekyll vs WordPress. Also text is cheap, you are good at words, so describe a hundred videos plus thumbnails, and publish 5 in rotation, then get people to request or vote on publishing others. It's a fudge, but if you've got few options, you think out of the box.
@AdamBishop
That's POSSE, essentially?
As described in the IndieWeb wiki.
@RyunoKi @killyourfm Ah yes, that's exactly it! Thank you.