
I’ve been running a Peertube instance for, I think, at least 2 years now? My registrations are open. I have some large initial limitations on upload sizes too and will adjust them up even higher as I see that videos being posted aren’t violating the rules.
Why do I keep registration open in mine?
I suppose it comes down to why the site was created. My reason was simply to provide an alternative to YouTube, on principal, and as an advocate against corporate control and ownership over people and their videos. Given this, at least for my site, “I just wanna upload stuff” IS a valid reason to open an account on my site.
Yes, that happened once and I quickly removed the account. Because I leave the site open, I need to be prepared to put in the extra time to moderate it.