YouTube is the one-stop-shop of internet videos. Any specific niche has a competitor, but none of them seriously competes with the whole of YouTube.

I noticed the outage because I wanted to watch a stream, so I might go to Twitch now. Often I use Youtube for music, where Spotify is a solid alternative with many of the same creators. If I want to see that video from reddit of people throwing burning flares at a balcony I can probably find it on LiveLeak. Many of the educational channels I've subscribed are also on Nebula, but I could also watch a documentary on Netflix or Disney+ instead.

My daughter could not do her homework assignment, her Google classroom is linked to YouTube. Thank goodness I was able to find the video she was looking for on Dailymotion. I haven’t been to the site in over 10 years

Vimeo is my first stop when I can’t get it on YouTube.

It's niche but I like that a lot of filmmakers seem to be on there. Often I can find the individual people behind well-produced Apple ads for example.

The problem is that most of my subscribed channels are not in Vimeo, so I lose a lot of meaningful content

I wonder why syndication is not more of a thing. Surely there must be a simple tool to upload your video to multiple platforms at once?

LBRY and Bitchute can automatically mirror your YT channel, and IIUC the former can also automatically upload videos to YouTube, maybe even on a customizable delay. Some decent sized channels like minutephysics use LBRY, but even though anecdotal accounts report much higher revenue per view and no decrease in YouTube exposure, it’s still certainly a uphill battle to compete with a de facto monopoly that can afford to hemorrhage money and just get more from a massive gatekeeper of the web.

Would you risk losing ad revenue if you posted to content providers who pay less?

(I have no idea whether YT revenue is meaningful for smaller players, to be clear; I suspect not, but I also suspect it's worse elsewhere.)

I'm pretty sure Vimeo is paid, so it's sadly a non-starter for many creators.

YouTube Music user here. Fired up Windows Media Player for the first time in ages, and told it to scan my old folder of ripped CDs.

If you're Windows user maybe try lightweight option like foobar2000?

or WinAmp?

Is WinAmp still alive? I last used it a couple of decades ago!

That llama's ass ain't gonna whip itself!

https://www.winamp.com/

There's a 2018 copyright date in the footer, so I guess that's as alive as it needs to be.

Vudu, Spotify, Pandora. I think there's a wide enough overlap that plenty of people could say "give us a try" when YouTube goes down.

Yeah... But you still don't get the content from the youtube creators that you follow, usually I go for youtube just to see a few selected channels

https://anim8.io for animation fans

'PeerTube: the federated video streaming service that's resilient to down time'

LBRY?