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Peertube is run by volunteers who pay with their own money and time for the convenience of others to use it for free. People generally run it to give people social media options outside centralized corporate control.
Why would someone put themselves in legal jeopardy and host pirated content, knowing their arrest is imminent? You can't hide your site easily.
Porn would be overwhelmingly expensive to run because of the sheer amount of traffic, storage, and numbers of people. It would have legal exposure too and require huge moderation problems, with no return for the effort.
Well, there are many many piracy sites which are not even hidden, if they are why not a peertube instance? How is that different from regular website? And I guess you can earn money on peertube too. Like how much more expensive would porn on peertube be compared to pornhub? You just host the instance with porn, add ads to its videos and voila, yet nobody does it? Why would it have legal exposure? How is it different than regular pornhub?