An alternative to YouTube would be a healthy thing for the Internet. It has a complete monopoly on online video, and its policies are awful for content creators.

A lot of slacktivists complain about their policies, but honestly, are they that bad? I've heard a few content creators moan, but they've always stopped well short of e.g. hosting their own videos.

If you're sailing close to the wind - making video collages with copyrighted content (legal fair use, but that's an affirmative defence you have to assert, not a right as such), or advocating for controversial political causes, or doing things many people don't want to see in public (breastfeeding, nonnude fetish modelling) - then sure, you're in trouble. But what proportion of content creators is that? The mainstream of content creators are, I think, doing fine under YouTube.

There are plenty of occasions where YouTube takes down things that are perfectly legal, perhaps even things that don't violate their own written policy. And sure, that's bad. But nothing they've done so far has felt like the hill I would want to die on.