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YouTube is a very different scale of platform... There's probably ways that it could be done, and I know things like PeerTube do exist, but... Storing video is expensive, serving video is expensive, transcoding video is expensive... While I'd love to see it, I'd also worry a little bit about the retention of videos over time. YouTube's video archive is kind of insanely valuable, and it'd be a shame to have it disappear. Not that I necessarily think it's safe in Google's hands, mind you, I just worry that people self-hosting video would drop out pretty quickly.