I've been using: https://github.com/graham-walker/youtube-dl-react-viewer with yt-dlp to create complete archives of channels I like because I have so many channels I learn from I don't want YT to randomly disappear them. Mostly language, but loads of deep ML long plays and other things.

I'm looking forward to trying out PeerTube.

Start archiving now, the internet is rapidly getting user hostile.

Drives are cheap, data is expensive.