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W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 17 hours agoI have degoogled but YT is the only thing I’m stuck with. The monopoly is too much to overcome.
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Justifier@lemmy.world 14 hours 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 11 hours 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).
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
I just quit watching it a few months ago. No big deal, it’s all crap and mindless shit anyways.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
it’s all crap and mindless shit anyways.
If you click on mindless shit, the algorithm serves you mindless shit. I get documentaries. 🤷
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
I just avoid algorithms. If I want documentaries there are places for those.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 hour 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.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
you know who else has documentaries?
PBS.
support your local public broadcasting stations, people.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 11 hours 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 11 hours 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.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 16 hours 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 16 hours 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 14 hours 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 13 hours ago
That thar dude frum lemmy.ca, Imma laff ifn he done be Quebecois
crater2150@feddit.org 12 hours ago
What’s “regular English”? Only words you personally know? www.oed.com/dictionary/ask_n1?tab=meaning_and_use
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 14 hours 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 13 hours ago
We’re talking about youtube competition, self hosting isnt ever going to compete with youtube.
impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
Wasn’t there some professor that started uploading actual educational non-porn lectures on pornhub a while back?
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 9 hours 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.
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Freetube + Invidious