A good example to show how much discoverability is important. Check Blender's Peertube [1] and compare to their Youtube Channel [2]. At the time of writing the

A good example to show how much discoverability is important. Check Blender's Peertube [1] and compare to their Youtube Channel [2]. At the time of writing the latest video is a week old and has 27K views on YouTube while a measly 28 views on PeerTube. Those figures alone show that it's not even worth to keep an instance up and running for this. I doubt it even counts as an insurance policy against Google shenanigans, you are likely to lose all viewership if your channel goes kaput anyway. The only way this can possibly be successful for anyone is if they make huge investments in marketing and that carries a risk that even then it may never pay back. YouTube just provides immense value through discovery. You may not like it but there's no denying. [1] https://video.blender.org/ https://video.blender.org/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/c/BlenderFoundation/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/BlenderFoundation/videos