I found this https://peertube.io/about/instance#description

If you need a higher video quota than provided by default please email “admin@eputers.net”.

Although PeerTube.io does allow for video uploads. We often cannot support the upload size and moderation required by many video creators. A list of of other PeerTube instances is available here.

I guess there are beefier instances for the bigger uploads. I’ll play around with it on the weekend and see what’s out there. I created my account today to upload that video.

It was easy but I only have a 5mb daily upload quota with peertube.io - not sure if that can be increased somehow. Otherwise it uploaded and transcoded all within a couple of minutes

I made a vid of it loading awful.systems https://peertube.io/w/buMQfhKiYcCm18evK3n6z1

I’ve never thought about it from this perspective. I wonder whose voices I’d find if I put on my tinfoil hat and do some digging on the impossible narrative.

Here’s a thread on the orange site about the project from 5 months back with plenty of opinions™ on the matter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35521704

Edit: there are many threads https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ladybird

also updated the OP with a link to the news that Shopify recently donated 100k to the project