Lol I wonder what your job is?

Stop complaining and if you want open source so bad make it. I am hardcore open source advocate but you are going beyond , they are giving out for free.

These are really technical memes lol

They are plenty of options! Immich is a really popular one , I went with Synology photos since I own a Synology NAS

Put some of the nice features behind a paywall

Its nearly impossible to replicate what YouTube it is today. The amount of storage and bandwith require is immense, also the creators coming up to a new platform without a way to get money it will really hard to have something like YouTube.

Do they have an android app? I mostly use my social media on my phone.

I was using Mastodon as Twitter as most of the people I used follow move there

Nostr? I never heard of that one , how active it is?