FWIW, I do subscribe/scheduled donate to media sources (news/tech) and some YT content (not GN, because of the aforementioned preference for text, I only watch some of their videos).

Should GN move to PeerTube, I would consider a scheduled donation subscription purely to help kickstart the ecosystem.

I strongly believe that subscriptions/scheduled donation are the best way forward for media. Simple focus on sources that one uses regularly (more than once a week).