I have been toying with the idea of various types of videos, including intermediate level painting videos, video game retrospectives, and some personal worldbuilding project videos. I don’t want to feed the YouTube machine, but also don’t want unsustainable expenses. I’ve looked at a few of the various not-YouTube alternatives but it is difficult for me to get a good read on that landscape.
Peertube
Their instances take forever to be approved. It has been over a week for me.Edit: I checked and the instance I requested an account with does mention there is a wait-list for approval. I just created one on makertube.net right now that says it should be approved in about a day which is more reasonable. It seems OP could create one on that instance. The Fediverse has alternatives for almost anything.
Peertube is pretty much it right now. Anything else is more expensive or YouTube.
Someone suggested AWS S3 but that is ridiculously expensive. How much viewership do you expect? Self hosting is not that expensive unless you have big volume. Or you could just seed some torrents. I would stay away from “platforms” since afaict they all have the same disease as youtube, just in its less advanced stages.
I’ve watched some things on odysee, but also heard some pretty problematic things. I don’t recall the details but I think they have had issues with filtering neonazis and something about sketchy ownership. Hopefully someone here will correct me.
That being said, there are some open source and privacy communicators there. Louis Rossman and Naomi Brockwell come to mind.
