Peertube doesn’t need love, it needs high quality content and high quality content needs money and the money is still on the other side of the street.
Mastodon/x or lemmy/reddit have a different type of content or creators and can thrive without money.
I hope Web Monetization takes off. I wouldn’t mind seamlessly paying X cents per hour to whatever site I’m browsing, which also can be distributed to creators. I hope this would enable professional content creators to diversify to platforms like Peertube. Unfortunately it seems the Web Monetization / Interledger platform isn’t quite usable yet. I tried, and it’s all very broken still.
Totally agree! Theres some really unique things on peertube BECAUSE its under the radar ATM. I hope it keeps its soul as it grows.