Tough choice. I feel like if you’re a creator who uses YouTube as your sole source of income, a few bucks a month, even like $100 could be worth while. Tragically would lock out people just starting, but maybe they can get some kind of free trial? On the consumer side tho I imagine people would be much less likely to pay, but maybe some people could be convinced if it was real cheap.

Peertube I think helps offload that by having every video be a torrent so each additional viewer increases the max bandwidth. But still not free to start

I could see someone making some fork of peertube that helps creators get paid. May not be free but could get creators willing to join

I imagine anyone who’s already made an account here has already made a decent effort to leave permanently but there’s clearly many more people that have not jumped ship to lemmy/kbin. I think that as more people join these services people will improve by their open source nature. Hopefully the kinks will iron out over time. If lemmy can make it a much more seemless process generally, more people will jump ship

I have yet to join any matrix instances, but I’ve heard it’s a good replacement for discord. And discord already has a concept of manually hosted servers so I feel like it’s a smaller jump to full federation than some of the other services coming to fediverse