Doesn’t matter there we’ll never be a replacement for YouTube the cost is to great. Think of the storage they barely remove videos they just stay up there.

Why expose any ports at all. Just use reverse proxy and expose that port and all the others just happen internally.

It’s not gate keeping it isn’t self hosting someone else is hosting it hence the self is removed. Should discussions be allowed sure as long as it’s about the application and not problems with their hosting provider.

I mean by definition it isn’t self hosting as someone else is hosting the service for you.

I’d say it isn’t self hosted. Same as companies doing the same not calling it on prem. No should discussions be allowed here yes as long as it isn’t about the hosting provider.

Host can take your data and shut you down. Not SELF hosted. Same as business not calling it on PREM hosting when they do the same.

Your hosting but not self hosting.

Oh it definatly is a technology problem though. There well never be a federated Youtube for instance. Think about that the storage that Google uses since videos are not really deleted, and the bandwidth to server that much video. It doens’t really scale with federation.