I'd love to see this project succeed, but I have learned some tough lessons from similar which make me less than optimistic.

Take IPFS for example. It was marketed as a way to end 404s, fight censorship, and enable collaborative file pinning. IPFS has failed miserably at everything. 404s were simply replaced with 504s, the whole system is vastly more censorable than torrents, and the software is only usable by experts.

My biggest word of advice is to put user experience front and center. I don't care what cool new tech you're running, if it's not easy enough for a grandma or a brainrotted zoomer to use, consider the project DOA.

Secondly, incentives are everything, and altruism isn't enough. There are plenty examples of Peertube instances that came and went because the operator wasn't able to continue paying the storage and bandwidth bills.