YouTube

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YouTube is a video hosting silo that has known issues. If you are looking for the IndieWeb YouTube channel, it is called IndieWebCamp.

Why

distribution
discovery
monetization - YouTube shares ad revenue with creators if enrolled in the Partner Program
YouTube provides multiple encodings of videos to support low bandwidth viewers
videos are viewable from a wide variety of devices including ones that don't have a web browser, (e.g. smart TVs or the YouTube app on Apple TV)
YouTube autogenerates captions for videos, and creators can also upload captions in multiple languages
Benefit from good YouTube video player UX such as
- Description-text-driven video chapters displayed as segments over the timeline — easier to publish and update than internal chapter metadata
- Scrubbing/timeline hover thumbnail shows what part of the video you’re navigating to for quick skimming
- Player remembers your last playhead location per-video, restores on refresh

A few summary reasons why NOT to post on YouTube:

Dislike of YouTube and/or Google as companies and how they monetize content in general
YouTube hosting of hate videos (specifically high traffic anti-gay videos during Pride month 2019)
Associating your content/posts (by way of sidebar, autoplay, and after-viewing recommendations) with conspiracy theory or other shallow sensationalist (limbic hijack) content
Embedded player loads huge (~2MB?) amount of javascript even before the user decides to play a video

See Criticism for more and for citations for the above.

Youtube has the following content from users:

Has anyone successfully exported all of these? In what format(s)?

Any luck importing to your own site (PESOS)? Or start POSSEing instead?

Export:

There was a watch history in the API, but this was removed September 15, 2016. A partial history can still be downloaded through Google Takeout.
Export on-YouTube subscriptions as an OPML file that can be imported/used by feed readers. This export option can be found in the subscription manager.

Limitation: the OPML just links to XML feeds (not sure if it contains actual data about the channels you are subscribed to)