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This is the answer. If necessary, you livestream a call run on a separate service (think: a call of 5-20 people on Zoom, where the audio and video/screenshare is piped into YouTube).

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Right, if you want to self-host you can run something like Wowza (paid product, but it's a complete solution)

https://www.wowza.com/

at that point, livestreaming is already a pretty stable affair in the foss world. owncast and peertube both are solid players where you can do good livestreaming. heck, even pixelfed which is a sorta instagram alternative is getting livestreaming so that is a nice idea.

consider this. the "host" creates a peertube livestreaming link and sets it as unlisted. that way only people with the link can watch the stream. sure it wont have any moderation but is that possible in a 1000 zoom meeting beyond who can open the mic or share screen?

I think the idea behind a 1000 person zoom meeting is to "make" everyone feel like a participant, even if the reality is that they're not, they're just watching/listening. Live-streaming makes that more clear.

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