That said, there's other (centralized) video hosting solutions you can go to if you're less technically inclined. Vimeo is a popular choice.
It's the web3 part that's not on my radar yet, honestly I'm happy with YouTube as-is until someone figures out discoverability
this could be a place to start! makes it easy to upload content and host it on IPFS.
Service wise ofc happy to pay for anything that makes my life easier but they appear to be charging by the storage?
IPFS is a way to host and distribute files. It's not free. To have files distributed they need to be hosted somewhere. You can do this yourself by hosting an IPFS server at home or in the cloud. On IPFS this is called a "pin". Pinata host and serves your files to pin them on IPFS. That's why their list of services is that of a cloud provider.
From their pricing/plans page (https://www.pinata.cloud/pricing)
Fast Global CDN
100GB bandwidth included per month
Additional bandwidth at $0.05/gb
Unlimited storage at $0.15/gb
Here's a blog article that covers Pinata's primary use case - web3 hosting for NFTs https://medium.com/pinata/the-file-requirements-for-nfts-a20...
Web3 is beyond the hill of magic vs technology for me currently, it's on the tolearn list. Is that actually the alternative to YouTube?