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Unfortunately that's one of the problems with a lot of alternative platforms.
You would think there'd be some decentralized video hosting thing popular with us Fediverse types but in practice they're all the low spots in the gutter in which the densest shit gathers. Most of the audience is on Youtube, and you only migrate to an alternative site if you've been banned from Youtube, and the folks who haven't been banned from Youtube don't tend to want to go stand next to the people who have so it's difficult for legitimate content creators to adopt those alternative platforms.
Dailymotion still exists and I think you can still upload there but I know of no "dailymotioners." Vimeo seems to have gone in a b2b direction, Twitch is mainly for live streaming, Tiktok succeeded where Vine failed, Nebula was some Youtubers starting their own Netflix with blackjack and hookers, Floatplane was LMG starting their own Netflix with blackjack and hookers, then you've got the several porn sites of varying dubiousness, and then down in the sump you've got the likes of LBRY and Odysee.
There are a few creators out there that publish multiple places. If it doesn't cost to publish, we could start encouraging more people to publish more places. The biggest problem is you do actually have a chance to get paid on Youtube. Most of the content worth watching is only doing it because they can make money
See that is what I think would eventually allow another platform to take off, is publishing to two sites at once.
Google's Adsense...I guess there are people making useful amounts of money with it? A lot of Youtubers seem to prefer having their own sponsors and do the ad read themselves and/or have some service like Patreon to allow their audience to fund them directly. Especially since that revenue won't just disappear on the whims of an algorithm like Adsense money will. "We've demonetized and age restricted this video. Reason? coin came up tails."