Which description? That Wikipedia article says "The aim is to provide an alternative to centralized platforms such as YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion."

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The difference to YouTube is that it's not intended to create a huge platform centralizing videos from the whole world on a single server farm (which is horribly expensive).

From their website. It's a very different system, and also not funded by advertisers, which means someone else has to pay the bills.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is PeerTube's purpose to replace YouTube?

We can answer with certainty: no!

The ambition remains to be a free and decentralized alternative: the goal of an alternative is not to replace, but to propose something else, with different values, in parallel to what already exists.

They're saying they're not a "replacement" because it's a decentralized alternative to something centralized. Not because it can't serve the same needs for technical or economic reasons.