It’s not an alternate way to view Youtube, it’s a totally separate service. You’re not missing anything, if no one’s using it to post content, then there’s no content. Youtube is a tough one to compete with because the infrastructure needed to host that much data and distribute it is insane. Peertube is super niche and not many know about it, but I do wonder how fast scaling would become a problem if it suddenly got an influx of new users.

How does that work here anyway? Is there a FAQ or something to explain? Do downvoted comments get hidden or pushed down?

But it’s not usually the people running the platform doing that. You can also find instances that go full on 4chan style freeze peach and only delete explicitly illegal stuff, but most of those are probably defederated from the big instances by now.

Enshittifying is usually the process of monetizing a platform that is running at a loss to build a user base. Steam is not running at a loss, they are making a killing as is.

Ska is mostly cringe, but Streetlight Manifesto still hits!

Every few years I just create a new folder of the artists that I actively listen to and keep the older stuff out of my library but still in storage.

The admins just write it off!