If I want to watch someone knowledgeable working on my favorite language I will look for this content (or I will find that they are doing this via some other means - like Twitter, irc, Mastodon etc.) and unless experience is not horrible for some reason I don't care if it's Youtube, PeerTube, RSS feed with links to the video on ftp server. If you delivery something unique enough (in this case I assume that there are not that many people providing such content on similar level) for specific group of people you can probably leave YouTube and be fine.
But if I'm interested in something less specialized like for example tech news and I'm not attached to specific creator I might not even notice that someone left the platform. If I don't see "Linus tech tips" in my video feed I'll watch "Gamer Nexus" or "Hardware Unboxed" or something else.
Sad truth is that when I want to see video about something general I look for it on YouTube and don't even bother searching for other source. I think that YouTube "monopoly" is not on hosting video content but on discoverability of it. And I say this as someone who tries to avoid Google products as much as possible.
- content that you seek
- content that seeks you
If I want to watch someone knowledgeable working on my favorite language I will look for this content (or I will find that they are doing this via some other means - like Twitter, irc, Mastodon etc.) and unless experience is not horrible for some reason I don't care if it's Youtube, PeerTube, RSS feed with links to the video on ftp server. If you delivery something unique enough (in this case I assume that there are not that many people providing such content on similar level) for specific group of people you can probably leave YouTube and be fine.
But if I'm interested in something less specialized like for example tech news and I'm not attached to specific creator I might not even notice that someone left the platform. If I don't see "Linus tech tips" in my video feed I'll watch "Gamer Nexus" or "Hardware Unboxed" or something else.
Sad truth is that when I want to see video about something general I look for it on YouTube and don't even bother searching for other source. I think that YouTube "monopoly" is not on hosting video content but on discoverability of it. And I say this as someone who tries to avoid Google products as much as possible.