Many of my favorite channels (mostly civil engineering, science, history) are there, and release there first before YouTube. Sadly the UI is not as good, and there are no automatic captions like YouTube. But it's cheap and it works...
And of course there's Patreon.
Most Patreon accounts I've seen just link to unlisted Youtube videos.
It also seems like they don't allow all types of accounts to use it: https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/6598555214477-...
There are a few other usage restrictions that make it worse than just hosting on Youtube.
I know, i know, but that's pretty big speed bump in the onboarding process.