Derek (Gorf proprieter) wants 10,000/month to continue his operations and "development" on his site and PeerTube instance, which he claims to have built himself.
He uses the exact same software (Soapbox/Rebased) as NCD and NCTV (PeerTube). I have never seen such a pathetic grab for money and notoriety in my fucking life. The software that runs his service is free and open source. He didn't even change anything on his PeerTube instance other than install a light theme and fail to size the instance icon correctly.