Same with lemmy. Who cares about us? Seems to be working somewhat tho.

Issue with videohosting is filesizes, bandwiths, and the gigantic archive.

That's why I said surprising competition: no, it wouldn't be from a big typical tech company.

I think you're wrong on the value of the demographic: there are definitely ways, sectors etc where a small group of relatively tech savvy, ad-hating, very critical, neckbearded, moob carrying people is more valuable than a large mob of typical yay-saying consumers. I'ld even say it's the kind of niche demographic that made reddit big in the first place.