I checked out the second link, very cool stats. 540 TB Of video files 🤯

How can one estimate the costs of such a massive storage system?

I agree; the best option is to ditch Android … those who can do it. Some Banking apps, public transport ticket apps, and post/mail-delivery apps seem to be a hard requirement for people in real live though. Which leads to the question: But what about people who can not ditch their phones and can not afford multiple devices (this decade)? Maybe laws that introduce a hard requirement that everything should work through a (open source) web-browser can help, but then what about “offline” use cases?

It feels like we are building our own digital prison in real time.

How many Terrabytes of storage do you host? Is there any way to tell how many terrabytes the entire PeerTube ecosystem hosts?

Such numbers could be useful for marketing purposes.

I enjoy using peertube, the videos load quick enough for me lol. And there is a large selection of gaming content; Because of the good experience, I consider making a dontaion.

Yeah but for this they need to open source the entire tech stack imo. You can run oss on a closed source bootloader, but the end result will still be the enshittification and hardware lock-down.

Auditable open source hardware and wireless-chips are the real deciding factor in the long game!