PT, nebula, loops, odysee, and floatplane together can't fill the yt content gap.

You can start with moving to newpipe/grayjay and curate your own content which will lower your surface area.

At some point YT will manage to widevine and we'll be torrenting the best of that shit.

Yeah that's the killer. Just not enough content yet. I think it's cause video hosting is expensive. My hope is that individual youtubers start hosting their own peertube instances. But they'd never do that because they'd lose money.

If peertube could get functionality which would allow creators to hide videos behind a subcription which could be paid in fiat/crypto that would be a game changer. Easy to donate to your favourite creators while keeping federation.

Maybe one day.

Defo would recommend changing your email though. Takes a while to do all your accounts but once it's done you're free! Feels good.

You can use something like GrayJay to watch YT and other sources (and have offline playlists and subscriptions) without a google account whatsoever. That helped me make the jump to fully degoogle.