Only option I see in the foreseeable future is odyssee (a good sized but still not big youtube alt) gets wildly popular, gets a load of market shareholders, and worries enough about public image to kick the nazi punks off.

Or dailymotion dials back some of its restrictions. Either or

It is hard, video is the most data heavy type of social meda, so I think we should keep our expectations reasonable.

That being said, Peertube is already pretty damn cool. The foundations are there and it is really exciting.

One of the clear benefits to Peertube's architecture is how video content is naturally enhanced by being linked to from other other places (like lemmy). Peertube embraces that and for a lot of communities centered around video creators I think that cleanness and simplicity as a nexus point is going to start eventually making Peertube more attractive as a base way to link to a specific video even if most of their viewers actually watch it on youtube.

From there the path to becoming more widely used as a video platform I think is clear.

This is also why segmentation is important.

I don't want all my shit tied to one account or one "ecosystem" that can be compromised, enshittified, or subject to someone's agenda.

I started migrating away from gmail at the start of the year. Next is Android. I'm do e with Google. Wish there was something else like YouTube tho.

I highly recommend shelling out the $12 a year for a domain to tie to your email through Proton, that way, if Proton starts to enshitify, you can change email providers without having to migrate all your accounts to a new email. I am actually going through the exact same process, and I never want to have to do it again lol.

As someone who has gone to proton and back. I do not recommend it. The service is mostly OK, their android apo never delivers notifications probably because of the lack of play services, and while every client is open source and is guaranteed to be e2ee to other proton accounts, there are two huge issues with this:

1. In my case, the people I email are all on google and Microsoft, so they will be reading my emails anyway
2. When you communicate with non proton users the emails exchange HAVE to be plain text. So the only thing keeping proton from seeing you emails is a huge "trust me bro" that you can't verify. There are no code or cryptographic guarantees.

I migrated off of Proton Mail, they have no way to access your calendar from outside Proton's apps and web services, you can't access Proton Drive on Linux (and the workarounds never worked for me), and you need to keep running their decryptor tool if you want to use an email client other than their mail client.

Email is inherently insecure, zero knowledge encryption is worth nothing when 99% of your emails are being sent and received in plaintext. I'm on Fastmail now.

Shadowbanned?

sounds like an AI did it, i think it happened to everyone beginning of FEB. plus there were also site wide banning people. at first they dint care about you having multiple accounts participating in the same sub, since they had off-the books rule of unbanning automatically after a certain amount of time. now with all those purges, the AI look for previous violations even the ones you were unbanned, they "shadowbanned". plus now they look any account that remotely "resembles botting/spamming and banning people" NEW AND old inactive accounts are very susceptible to be being ban without reason. they also keep track of deleted accounts on your device too.
now they upted thier filtering, by unilaterally deleting any comment and post, without MOD noticing it, many reporting its to get it astroturfed by right wingers, im seeing that alot on reddit(i have a shadowbanned account too)

Ars has an article on this where it is confirmed that this is YouTube bowing to Trump and his sanctions of these groups due to their work with the ICC against Netanyahu.