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W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 1 month agoI have degoogled but YT is the only thing I’m stuck with. The monopoly is too much to overcome.
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Justifier@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Apparently there was some fallout with futo and him
Not sure at all about the details, but yeah he definitely backed them. Not sure if he still does though
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I think he just left to go work on fulu, no bad blood as far as i’m concerned. Anyways grayjay is pretty good, and when the new newpipe comes out that might be an even better choice maybe (but who knows when that’ll be?? Tell me).
Justifier@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I keep both newpipe and grayjay on my devices for when the other breaks
Tend to favor grayjay though because for whatever reason it usually works better for me
LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Is that only on android?
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ya, there’s no way Apple would allow it in their app store
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Creating an infrastructure that could potentially ingest terrabytes of data per second, and then processing it into multiple resolutions, is a massive ask.
Especially for a new site that might not ever get picked up by users, much less creators.
I think the only people that have a hope in hell of having a success at starting a youtube competitor are the owners of the big porn sites, since they are in a similar, if much smaller than youtube business with regards to infrastructure demands and processing needs. . So they have the institutional knowledge and infrastructural inertia to get started easier than anyone else on the planet. assuming they want to do a SFW video site, which they may not want to do.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
is a massive ask.
No, it’s not. It’s a massive request. When you punch out and leave the car lot, be sure to use regular English.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
It’s a fairly common phrase. Language can change and have regional differences. This isn’t Quebec defending their weird version of French as the only “correct” way to speak.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That thar dude frum lemmy.ca, Imma laff ifn he done be Quebecois
crater2150@feddit.org 1 month ago
What’s “regular English”? Only words you personally know? www.oed.com/dictionary/ask_n1?tab=meaning_and_use
tristynalxander@mander.xyz 1 month ago
[deleted]A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes, every time the topic comes up, this same idea comes up of making individuals bear the financial burden of hosting and bandwidth, without an ounce of understanding how that will never, ever, create a viable youtube alternative.
And once those problems come up, someone will have the great idea of gathering people into collectives to lower the prices and increase bargaining power.
Then after that someone will have the idea of reducing costs by moving their individual videos into the same rack, so the costs of hardware, storage, maintenance go down and stability and uptime goes up.
and before long you arrive back at a youtube like platform, and you’ve just become the equivalent of techbro reinventing the concept of a train for the 380th time.
impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Wasn’t there some professor that started uploading actual educational non-porn lectures on pornhub a while back?
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think I know who you are talking about, I recall seeing something about her making more money posting on pornhub than youtube because of greater advertising sharing or something.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And yet we’re having shit get censored everywhere else because aDvErTiSeRs. Clearly something doesn’t add up here.
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 1 month ago
Afaik pornhub actually pays way more than YouTube. There are also lots of people uploading SFW content to the hub.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yeah but hosting your self isn’t that big a deal depending on your host. At least until you get into the millions of views.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
We’re talking about youtube competition, self hosting isnt ever going to compete with youtube.
blargh513@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I mean, you could just switch to porn exclusively.
Hey, maybe that was the plan all along! I just wanted to understand how to fix my car or watch cat videos and now I’m watching a video where some lady is stuffing herself full of, well, everything.
Big porn wins again dammit!
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I just quit watching it a few months ago. No big deal, it’s all crap and mindless shit anyways.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
it’s all crap and mindless shit anyways.
If you click on mindless shit, the algorithm serves you mindless shit. I get documentaries. 🤷
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 month ago
you know who else has documentaries?
PBS.
support your local public broadcasting stations, people.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
you know who else has documentaries?
PBS.
support your local public broadcasting stations, people.
And do you know which documentaries they don’t have? The ones that are uploaded by their creators only to YouTube.
I watch plenty of Arte and I pay the fee but documentaries about video game speedruns etc. simply aren’t on Arte (or PBS or Nebula). I watch those where they are: YouTube.
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Or turn on adblockers and support the people you watch directly (donate, patreon, merch, etc). It takes like $2/yr to replace the ad revenue that you would’ve generated for them (something like that).
Or use the alt platforms that creators create themselves when possible.
You can’t escape youtube right now (as in there is no real alternative if you stop using it all together), but you can turn on adblockers (ublock), use 3rd party clients and give something directly to creators you watch a lot.
And you can support PBS in addition if you want.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I just avoid algorithms. If I want documentaries there are places for those.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well, you made a wrong claim that I merely corrected. Watch whatever wherever you want. Doesn’t change the fact that the documentary creators I follow for the vast majority only upload to YouTube and those that also upload to Nebula offer a worse experience there.
Amdouni@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
What I like about the algorithm is that it suggest you related content (usually).
LordCrom@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Use a VPN in Albania. No signin, no ads, its great
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Freetube + Invidious
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 1 month ago
For me freetube usually only works about 30% of the time.
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Depending on your configuration, your experience will differ greatly.
As mentioned in another comment I made, Freetube relies heavily on either directly connecting to YouTube’s API or proxying through an Invidious instance, perhaps try a different Invidious instance?
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 1 month ago
Do you have any instances you can suggest?
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I use Freetube, what does Invidious do?
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
There are two ways of using Freetube, either with YouTube’s APi or with Invidious’s APi.
When using YouTube’s APi you won’t get the same ad-blocking and proxying benefits compared to Invidious’s API.
One bonus of using Invidious is that your traffic is combined with everyone else’s who use that same instance, for example if you use inv.nadeko.net your traffic will be masked along side everyone else’s who happens to use that same instance.