The point isn’t to make dead people. The point is to be a target too dangerous for a potential enemy to want to attack. It’s to keep people alive, because if an enemy were to look at you they’d see you’re ready to fight them and decide not to; at least, that’s the idea. Some enemies are too stupid or careless that they’d do it anyway.
I don’t think you get it. If you verify your age you’re identifying yourself. They aren’t “starting with children.” They’re only using children as an excuse to identify everyone. It isn’t about getting children off of these sites. It’s about tracking anybody online.
I love the one guy on that thread who is defending vibe coding, and is “about to launch his first application,” and anyone who tells him how dumb he is is only doing so because they feel threatened.
Hosting a peertube instance would be almost nothing I comparison to this. It’d just be a duplicate of all uploaded videos at worst, which he’s storing many times that amount of raw footage anyway. They probably wouldn’t even notice the overhead.