I have a feeling that a lot of those who replied have not really read the article, that contains some nuances. I do not like the idea of age verification, but the project leader’s proposal is apparently not even official (and more like a hypothetical in a discussion thread on their forums.

Please read more than headlines, lol.

Yeah, it kinda does.

Oh, I accidentally copied that over from the original Peertube post (video description). I have now edited the post a bit.

I am not renting a VPS from them (only domain registration, an e-mailadres and whois privacy), but have you looked into the offerings from Infomaniak? Mind you, things like the TLD influence the price a lot (reg and/or renewal), and hosting related services can increase costs as well.

I switched to it (KDE version) earlier this year (away from Fedora) and apart from a few minor things (e.g. there was no firewall, so I installed firewalld) it has been running pretty well.