YouTube alternatives is an important topic. There's PeerTube. An MLP PeerTube instance is PonyTube. However, I and other(s) have noted before that PeerTube does not support no-derive copies of videos. This makes it more of a hassle to store everything local. For example, if you have an MP4 file which is totally playable on all platforms and upload it to PeerTube, the server will derive a different copy of that same video. Even if it was originally a 480p or 720p video. So your originally-uploaded file will not be held by the server. Plus there's the issue of addresses: not often considered, but websites use different addresses than local file paths. With IPFS, websites and local paths use the same addresses. That's less of a hassle and more in support of owning the data. That brings me to Storry.TV, which is like an IPFS replacement for YouTube ( sited owner posted some info in https://old.reddit.com/r/ipfs/comments/tett6t/ipfs_video_site/ ). That website is definitely problematic:
. https://storry.tv/ = too CF-walled, can't see what's a YouTube embed vs. what's a CID; can see different categories, but this seems broken: https://storry.tv/videos/category/pets-animals
. http://10.0.0.123:8080/ipns/storry.tv = loaded an image+text, but otherwise didn't work at all in my experience
. https://storrytv.tez.page/ = seems to be the best way to access it, but videos didn't load when I used it
. https://storry.tv/ipfs/[cid] = "couldn't establish a secure connection" in Safari, but this problem may actually be specific to me
. (Apparently you can make an account there to share videos, but IIRC, some user said that signing up didn't work.)
. (Better off with just a plain "index of" ipfs folder vs. that website working as some video sharing site?)

With storrytv.tez.page, you can see either a YouTube or IPFS icon in the top right of a video thumbnail. I watched a short video, and part of a movie from the 1980s by copying the CIDs it showed when a video failed to load and playing it in my gateway.

Will there ever be an "IpfsTube" that works well soon? Maybe not. What about https://d.tube ? IDK much about that. A decentralized video sharing site / YouTube alternative is not a fundamentally flawed concept. Does the metaverse, like Decentraland, have fundamental flaws? Maybe. It's biased to say that Decentraland will never become significantly better. And it's also biased to say that Decentraland will certainly become significantly better - maybe it will shut down, or continue existing as a "crappy video game". Perhaps that project is doomed and a better one for some metaverse game will arise in the future, or like I said, perhaps the idea of the metaverse is flawed = a no-go, a non-starter.

What does the metaverse matter? I guess it could be cool to build and experience stuff in a virtual reality world. But you could already build Ponyville in Minecraft, or that has already been made. So maybe these metaverse games will continue sucking until future advancements in technology. Anyways, don't want to be too harsh on these projects, the alternative is big tech monopolies and not trying out some crazy cyberpunk ideas: so being boring / not supporting decentralized things. Plus, Meta (Facebook) didn't or couldn't even make some cool metaverse video game when it was really focused on that. Oh, and Decentraland is "ruled"/"governed" by a dumb democracy or oligarchy as stated in "The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse":
https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=EiZhdpLXZ8Q