Your channel will die. Period. YouTube’s biggest feature is discovery. “The algorithm.” Sure, you might be able to self host videos, for relatively little mon

Your channel will die. Period. YouTube’s biggest feature is discovery. “The algorithm.” Sure, you might be able to self host videos, for relatively little money. But who is going to watch them? Alternatives like Floatplane, CuriosityStream, Nebula, etc all are great platforms and far more creator-friendly (mostly because they were built and owned by creators) but they all flounder when it comes to the discovery and hooking aspect because the amount of content on them is minuscule, and at the end of the day the viewer just goes back to YT.