When you say "quit YouTube", do you mean you replaced it with a different service? Or do you simply mean you deleted your account?

I've been hoping for more competition on alternative platforms, but everything that I've tried has failed to reach any kind of reasonable user base.

Lots of bot videos. A few schizo uploads. Stolen movies, etc. It feels like the earliest versions of YouTube and it's been a struggle to put up with. Most of them went under at some point or another, too.

I watch probably 95% less videos than before I "quit youtube". I never visit youtube.com and I deleted all my google accounts. I still have my subscriptions saved in a few Invidious instances and I occasionally check them.

I haven't really looked into any alt platforms besides interacting a little. This peertube instance[1] has a good experience but it only has a few channels. I might look more into peertube now that you mention it.

I like videos for entertainment, but for information it is a timesuck.

[1] neat.tube