Ok and when in your opinion has it been different? Some things just aren’t so easily predictable and other things are predictable but people do not care because it mainly effects future generations and not them.

Always has been like that, always will be

The problem with transitioning from YouTube to PeerTube is that without a critical mass of users it’s just not worth it for creators. But without creators the users won’t go there, because there’s no content.

Lemmy has that problem to a much lesser extend because this kind of platform is way more focused on the interaction between users. Or put differently, everyone is a creator here.