To my thinking, it’s time to get folks on a federated platform. Here is a graphic of the various fediverse platforms. I know off of the top of my head about PeerTube. I just learned about the others.

PeerTube would absolutely be the alternative here. It's challenging though - if YouTube can't make money hosting your content on a large scale, what makes you think you'll make money hosting it on a smaller scale?

Some might manage to finance it through crowdfunding, and as the Fediverse grows hopefully it'll manage to self-sustain content creators here so that discoverability of content on PeerTube will increase. The future is not necessarily all that bleak, but it's still a long way to get there.

PeerTube and the fediverse at large do not lend themselves to earning a money. That is an appreciably difficult situation to be in. I suppose the most one could hope for is to gain some fame and having someone sponsor them through something like Patreon.

There was an attempt to put together an open protocol for paywalled podcasts (could be generalized to basically anything rss based) by @[email protected] at RadioPublic called PodPass. Something like this could maybe be applied to fediverse content, too, as a way to do channel memberships. I keep hoping this can take off again.

The original spec for PodPass