I read Welsh's reply and wanted to comment. I've been involved in a number of youtube productions that moved to a private streaming service I've mentioned before. You don't need to compete with YouTube - you just need to provide better content for specific subjects.
To make a streaming site you should first find a few dozen popular content creators that make the type of videos you want to concentrate on, and then come forward here looking for crypto help. Unless you plan on financing all the initial content yourself, then I apologize.
This generally good sound advice for almost every industry I can think of. In fact, more companies that develop into something bigger, were once a more niche based service. I believe, amazon was originally a bookstore(?), and although its not always the aim to compete, but to achieve a certain market share to justify the platform. To make a streaming site you should first find a few dozen popular content creators that make the type of videos you want to concentrate on, and then come forward here looking for crypto help. Unless you plan on financing all the initial content yourself, then I apologize.
Although, getting back to the original discussion; I personally don't think a decentralized "Youtube" would be enough of a benefit, or even an improvement. It depends what is meant by decentralized in this instance, since decentralized might mean that the platform gets overwhelmed by spam, and therefore contributes to its death. Obviously, you could say that going the community moderated route would work, but only once the platform is big enough, since at the start most people won't care, they'll only care if the platform appears good, without being actually attached to the idea.