It's like the alternative really is "depend on his largesse and submit to his whims beacuse you can't overthrow the king because he is too powerful".
Like it or not YouTube is in an extremely solid position that is unlikely to be shifted by anyone at this point.
Twitch somehow seems to do a pretty good job of competing with YouTube.
If you move and only get a handful of views, do you really have a channel? If you can't take your viewers somewhere else, do you actually have viewers or are you simply one of the interchangeable nobodies that YouTube uses to keep YouTube viewers engaged?
I'm reminded of the "influencer" who couldn't sell 10 t-shirts to her "thousands" of viewers.
I often hear the “host your own content” but I don’t feel like there is an equally vocal “make it discoverable, too” crowd. That is until I discovered the indieweb.
The indieweb’s usage of microformats and features like “webmentions” that can be crawled ad hoc, enabling decentralized, federated discovery (example: http://indieweb.xyz) is the web that-IMO-we should have gotten. Not one dominated by corporatized, professionalized platforms
"We don't care. We don't have to. We're Google."
https://vimeo.com/355556831