YouTube offers millions of dollars in free advertising to content creators along with tens of dollars in free hosting.

With YouTube people can just click the "make money" button. YouTube handles the ad sales and payments. Both are your job if you're podcasting or publishing on PeerTube.

Hosting video content is not an unsolvable problem. YouTube's moat is economies of scale and user base. YouTube's draw is the "make money" button.

With podcasting you’ll almost certainly be reliant on being searchable on the major podcasting apps.

PeerTube is as close to nonexistent as a video platform can be.