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This isn't really relevant to OP. There are lots of sites that host video already.. YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, etc.

A successful discovery platform would allow content creators to publish to any platform they want (or their own site), and still maintain their viewership.

> As someone with a slow internet connection, I generally despise self hosted videos.

To this I would say that at this point, storage and CDNs are becoming a commodity, and "self hosted" does not have to mean slow. I can build and host my own site on a home server while still serving videos from GCP CDN. Now I have similar to performance to YouTube without the YouTube.