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When is it time to switch away from youtube? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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We all hate google and youtube, but overall as a community we're all simultaneously lukewarm and non-committal about pushing towards using an alternative. I admittedly cling to invidious frontends for dear life.

It seems like whenever somebody asks for an alternative to youtube, they're offered Odysee and Peertube, but inevitably many others chime in about the shortcomings of both of those platforms.

Can we as a community come to a consensus as to which of these platforms should be pushed forward?

I don't even think it needs to be a binary choice. Obviously youtube cannot be immediately replaced for it's archival of educational and tutorial videos, but we can at least push newcomers towards using invidious frontends for those instances.

Maybe Odysee is better for some type of content over Peertube. Let's discuss which platform works best for what and try to be more active about sharing and promoting them not just to viewers but potential creators as well.

If you go to share a youtube link, try to see if that video exists on an alternate platform first and share that link instead. I think that's a good first step towards getting away from youtube in the privacy community.

But youtube alternatives are still very much on the fringe and I'm hoping this post will at least inspire some discussion about changing that.

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[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

I use peertube as much as I can, but there's only like 3 people that I like from Youtube that's also on Peertube: Veronica Explains (@veronicaexplains@tinkerbetter.tube), The Linux Experiment (@thelinuxexperiment_channel@tilvids.com) and Gardiner Bryant (@gardiner_bryant@subscribeto.me). I guess I watch Tafotin (@trafotin@spectra.video) from time to time as well.
I hadn't even used Odysee before, but just a cursory look I did find someone whose content I enjoy there, Naomi Brockwell. From the looks of it, it has some sort of crypto feature? (ew)
Also, how in the world does decentralization work there? There's only one website, that's odysee.com, that doesn't seem very decentralized to me.

I'm just so sick of the censorship on youtube, and the shadowbanning of comments. It feels like 90% of my comments aren't seen by anyone, not even myself.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago

It's a shame crypto has such a stink on it.

I mean, I despise crypto-bros and just don't want anything to do with any cryptocurrency or tokens of any kind.

However, in another universe it might have been a nice way to do micropayments to support content producers.

Like I'm not going to click on an ad so the platform gets $0.02 and the creator gets $0.01, but I would click a button to give the creator $0.01 if that were a thing.