PeerTube is open-source with a pretty forgiving license [1]. As you mentioned, you could run your own instance of it. I'd also point out that PeerTube instance

PeerTube is open-source with a pretty forgiving license [1]. As you mentioned, you could run your own instance of it. I'd also point out that PeerTube instances aren't run by the organization that "owns" the software. They're run by people like yourself that want to own and operate their own video hosting platform. Any censorship on those instances is up to the person running that instance. >There's still an "organization" that can choose to censor content. This is true of anything you don't self host. Any time you post a video to a platform that someone else owns, it could be subject to censorship at any time. >some kind of self-hosted YouTube, complete with play controls, thumbnails, upload interface? That's what PeerTube is. You can self-host an instance and allow other users to upload videos. You can go look at some other instances to see what the interface looks like.