With Reddit shutting down its API setting a precedent in the corporate tech world (and Reddit was a major outlier in that a ton of their users are technical minded and support third party clients, YouTube does not have that kind of userbase and will not get backlash for it), Twitter doing whatever the fuck they’re doing, and Google already hellbent on destroying ad blockers, the days of Newpipe, Invidious, and Freetube are numbered. Wouldn’t be surprised if they implement Netflix level DRM tomorrow that makes alt clients impossible. I say savour your alt clients while you can guys, you won’t be able to soon.
You can mirror your own as well.
It doesn’t have to be self hosted peertube, as long as you have auth on the peertube server and you have a high enough upload cap it will work.
Yes, that is exactly how you’d use it, it runs on a server with some youtube channels to check periodically and some peertube accounts to mirror them to and it does it.