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To make a YouTube alternative you need a global ad platform, storage capacity for exabytes worth of data, a global network of CDNs, and a global payment system for creators. These all need to operate at a massive global scale delivering content to viewers.
No one but Google has this.
Uh... pornhub actually does all of above though.
Today.
It's a sort of chicken-and-egg problem, also similar to the social media critical mass problem.
Creators won't move until the audience is there. Audience won't go until their favourite creators are there. Both won't move until the platform can handle the traffic, but the platform doesn't have the money to afford the required infrastructure until they have revenue coming in from large audiences...
The Pirate Bay has this tho. And pornhub has.
The Pirate Bay is not hosting or delivering video, they are just indexing P2P content and hosting magnet links. Pornhub is closer but not at nearly the same scale as YouTube.
There is also PeerTube
Google is getting sued over that Global Ad Platform and teaming up with Facebook to control over 50% of the online Ad market
Google loses bid to keep Texas' ad tech lawsuit in New York https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/google-loses-bid-keep-texas-ad-tech-lawsuit-new-york-2023-10-04/