Would it be possible for such a thing to exist? Does it exist already? I feel these need to be addressed as i believe youtube is about to follow reddit, meta and Twitter and tighten up on 3rd parties. So with that being a possible scenario, how would we deal with it as a open source community?

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[–] kadu 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not only possible, already a thing. It's called PeerTube and there are a few instances, mostly in french from what I can tell.

Though storing video is such a massive challenge that I don't expect nearly as much growth with PeerTube as we had with Lemmy, at least for the time being.

[–] dot20 4 points 1 year ago

Another big roadblock is that many YouTube creators rely on the YouTube ad income. It's not like Reddit or Twitter, where we were providing the content for free.