I know makertube.net is having an issue at the moment where some fairly big maker channels are coming over, and just dumping their entire back catalogue in one go and spamming everything up. It's very annoying, so if you're considering a jump to PT please don't do this. You can import your YT videos as private, and schedule them to publish one by one instead.

The MakerTube admin posted an update just last week saying we had funding through the end of year, but since a load of new people just signed up they've now had to spin up extra resources so that might no longer be the case. How many of these new channels will actually donate remains to be seen!

Edit: Also if you're a viewer, remember you don't need a PeerTube account to subscribe to channels! You can get them in your Lemmy, Mastodon etc feeds and leave comments / upvotes without ever leaving your platform of choice.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Perhaps these services need upload limits during peak hours like Vimeo (still??) has. Or at least throttling uploads over freezing up the whole network

[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

At the very least some kind of server rule asking people not to literally dump 100 hour long videos in a row, but to maybe instead bring their best ones over and take it as an opportunity to leave the trash videos behind!

Makertube admin just posted another update for anyone who's interested what sort of effect this is having and how much hosting such things costs https://mastodon.social/@MakerTube/111268033207325923

[–] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

any idea why makertube does not appear on fediverse observer?

[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No idea! I just searched for some of the biggest instances and they're not on there either 🤷‍♀️

[–] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the feedback, i opened a bug here.