Goolag just hid the dislike count on the HTML side of youtube and the public api access is next, meaning only video creators can review downvotes.
Their claims of mental health are bullshit as this will only placate narcissists, and this only exists to allow questionable parties to hide bad reception of their videos.
Oh please yes.
I like bitchute but it has the same problem that a lot of alt-tech has in that it doesn't reach critical mass, people come in at a trickle, see the abundance of 💊'd content and get scared off.