Originally Posted by AdultKing

Yes, that's exactly how it can work. Load up a tube with your own content and link to your site below the videos, surfers aren't stupid, if they want more they'll click your links without having to put up with being shown 30 ads and two popups like the big tubes give you. You also own your platform, so you can choose which other free tubes you federate with.

When you federate with other tubes that have the same intent you do, your content is distributed automatically across several other tubes, but not just any tube, the ones you federate with, who have the same point of view about things that you do. For example Dog Tube, Cat Tube and Kitten Tube might all federate and their content is distributed across their three tubes but they don't like Snake Tube because it's not nice, so they don't federate with Snake Tube and then Snake Tube doesn't get their content and Dog Tube, Kitten Tube & Cat Tube don't get Snake Tube's content either.

It's better for users, better for webmasters because you're not competing with ads for YouTube advertisers or Pornhub Premium, you're simply showing your own content with your links to your own sites in a way that surfers will love because they're not being abused by ads.