Replacing Youtube is really hard!
I thought odysee is a better alternative for youtube and offers much more privacy. But it’s not. So disappointed. Feeling hard to quit youtube because of other platforms doesn’t have much better or quality contents expecially no instance of peertube is truly usable. 🤥
Besides, it was a joke. Baidu and Billibilli have completely different content. It’s like replacing candy with a tomato in a child’s meal. Of course you’re going to get mad at me.
Odysee in this analogy would be like replacing candy with shitty off brand candy.
Odysee is not a foreign thriving streaming service it’s a venture capital funded mess that’s never going to do well compared to YT, same with Bitchute and others.
You’re going to want invidious.privacy.dev for an easy way to get your fix. Or Youtube DL.
I just don’t really use youtube for much of anything unless I randomly look stuff up. Odysee is certainly not going to provide me with tutorials or music albums!
Peertube is also not a replacement and more a way for people to self-host their channels free of censorship and then federate (like here on Lemmy) but it’s going to be much bigger than Odysee or Bitchute because it’s an open source software platform, not a shitty youtube knockoff.
PeerTube is a nice idea but almost all instance owners don’t enable much federation, if any.
I had to create my own and set it to auto-federate with others.
And still there’s a large lack of interesting content or stability or usable clients.
Also the sorting is completely out of whack. If I click on “trending” videos, the top ones are usually several months old.
There also a whole lot of non-English content with no way to filter it.
I administrate a PeerTube instance (peertube.wtf) and everything is just much more complicated compared to a Lemmy instance.
One reason I don’t “auto-federate” is because there’s a ton of pirated and questionable content. So much content is in a foreign language and so many instances are inactive and therefore filled with spam.
That’s why I add instances manually to federate with. This way, the quality of the content is also much higher.
there’s a ton of pirated and questionable content
It’s easier and more productive to just remove bad instances as they’re added than it is to scower all the different instances and pick and choose which ones to federate with.
Can’t help you content wise, but I run a private instance of Invidious which strips out ads and UX annoyances. I also use FreeTube as a front end which can also detect and remove sponsored content.
Still hitting their servers. So not doing much privacy wise, but it’s better than nothing.
Still hitting their servers. So not doing much privacy wise
I wouldn’t underestimate how much they are getting, technically but also legally, from a logged-in account using their interface. So using another interface and without having an account can already help a lot. They don’t want “just” the data to improve a profile, they also need some way to server back the ads to, otherwise it costs them but doesn’t bring money back. I imagine in such cases, especially in jurisdictions where ghost profiles are illegal, this does a lot already.
Its trivial to run Invidious through a VPN via Gluetun if you use Docker.
When I’m on Invidious, all my requests come from one of Proton’s IP addresses, amongst everyone else using YouTube on that Proton server. I’m not logged into YouTube and Google cannot load their ads, trackers and other spyware in my browser.
All they have to go on is the Proton IP, searches, and watched videos
Video platform is the next thing to be federated.
I don’t like YouTube moderation and the host should be federated, the way it is now YouTube owns the public data.
federated Exabytes of content
Unless you have special affection to YouTube moderation, this has to be done. Even if you want to believe it is hard, but it is completely untrue.
Federated =/= unstructured p2p network
A host can be a big instance in fediverse, the others can host another instance, can visit the big instance if it has the bandwidth, but not necessarily host the data (which is the case for unstructured p2p network, where everyone does the same task). As long as it is free software, both the host and user skip the hassle of adopting different interfaces.
Yeah I’ve gone 100% audio only through podcasts, broadcasts, and audiobooks.
Based solution
They’re not designed with privacy in mind, but I think one of the best things for video is supporting smaller more independent platforms. Things like Nebula, which is made up of a curated selection of high quality YouTubers who upload their YouTube videos sans advertising, as well as some small amount of unique bonus content. Nebula is owned by its creators, as an added bonus.
Or Dropout, made from the former CollegeHumor YouTube channel, it’s mostly sketch and improv comedy, as well as some D&D play videos.
Neither are privacy focused explicitly, but because of their direct relationship to their customers and lack of interest in advertising, they’re not incentivised to be bad for privacy like the bigger free platforms are.
Dropout has some really funny stuff, but they don’t have regional pricing where I live, so they cost about as much as Netflix and just a little less than Disney+
I’ll totally subscribe if they offer a better price in third would countries.
You can use YouTube with another Frontend. See it as YouTube only hosts the videos.
Personally I have a problem leaving YouTube due to I need to be logged in to get their recommended videos based on my profile.I don’t think anybody else can do that.
Yes, but I see it as a way of discovering other channels to subscribe to. You can also see it as ads. It is for me entertainment. Instead of searching for game x to watch, I can just see some videos that is apparently popular within this game.
I understand that some people don’t want it. You do want you want.
I just wrote a rather long comment to that person and now I’ve realized they are being purposefully obtuse.
You playing the content on YouTube is entirely justified. Lots of people put the news on a television instead of a radio while doing things around the house, because occasionally something visual is referenced or something is said that seems interesting enough to look over at the screen.
Besides, it’s not like the person that went through the effort of putting together a ten hour long essay is going to publish just the audio as a podcast or something.
That person’s an egg head, you enjoy your essays.
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