Regarding Youtube, the article does not mention PeerTube, which is in beta today and is crowdfunding through a highly trusted French non-profit (Framasoft): https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free...
You can try it out at https://peertube.cpy.re
Former discussions on HN:
- About the crowdfunding: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17153023
- About Peertube: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16714453