

You can also try out photoprism for that. Immich is best for an all-in-one solution as a replacement for google photos.
Photoprism also has face recognition, maps, and many more features geared towards photography than immich.
I realized after using photoprism that I am too basic for that haha
Sorry but YouTube is such a wealth of tutorial information that quitting it cuts you off from huge amounts of info that you (nowadays) can’t really find through search engines.
Tutorials for self-hosting, embedded development, analog design, gardening tutorials, etc…
A lot of these you literally cannot find online anywhere except for tiny bits and pieces through forum posts that take hours just to put them all together. Most blog posts nowadays are so horribly written on technical subjects and leave so much out as “implicit knowledge” that they are mostly unusable except by people who are already experts, which negates the point. (Shout out to gamersnexus which has a fast, no-ad website with all of the results from their lab testing on their with text write-ups and charts)
YouTube is expensive as all fuck to run. This is why alternatives will never take off unless they have a solid monetization model (e.g. floatplane). Sorry, but people on home internet with 100 down and 30 up aren’t going to be able to host peertube nodes and stream 4k video to more than a couple people. Text and music work well decentralized, but people start to become a lot less able to contribute when hosting costs become hundreds per month and their home internet is saturated and barely usable instead of single digits with light traffic. This isn’t even mentioning content creators’ monetization.