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stemy peertube.tv is an instance among many others. You could replace it by https://sepiasearch.org/, it's a meta-engine searching in all existing instances.
petrosophia Blog option: WriteFreely (https://writefreely.org/). It can be self-hosted, or there's managed hosting, and I think there are even federated instances you can join (though not many right now). NodeBB (https://nodebb.org/) is an optionally-federated forum you can self-host.
skrlet13 https://nosubscription.org/ You can find free or single payment software, to replace subscription-based ones. Check the OpenSource tag.
