yeah there are alternatives for sure, but it takes time to discover them. But many search engine are offering searching of videos. So may just be a good idea to start building a public index of all the videos.

And it is 2025, the HN crowd here can usually just deploy their video to CDN. Many business are also just hosting their own videos.

BTW forgot to mention Odyssey underlying protocol is https://lbry.com

And seems like there are past article about it on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24594663

> And it is 2025, the HN crowd here can usually just deploy their video to CDN. Many business are also just hosting their own videos.

This is a very bad standard and not indicative of the capabilities of the average small-to-medium business.

Nonetheless, I agree it's more complicated than I made it seem—YouTube is not an insurmountable problem for a determined actor.