Would it be possible for such a thing to exist? Does it exist already? I feel these need to be addressed as i believe youtube is about to follow reddit, meta and Twitter and tighten up on 3rd parties. So with that being a possible scenario, how would we deal with it as a open source community?
Not only possible, already a thing. It’s called PeerTube and there are a few instances, mostly in french from what I can tell.
Though storing video is such a massive challenge that I don’t expect nearly as much growth with PeerTube as we had with Lemmy, at least for the time being.