from GrumpyCat@leminal.space to linux@lemmy.ml on 28 Jul 00:48
https://leminal.space/post/23575508
Im not sure if this goes here like a major amount of my posts. Im looking for a alternative to youtube for beginners who just want to be apart of the community in a old school youtube perspective but not too old that it feels outdated. I sadly created a movie recap just to see how hard it was, it took me almost 2 hours just to slice and remove parts of the movie only to get a copyright warning by youtube. I mostly just blame my newbie editing skills, but is there a alternative to youtube that allows me to post videos youtube dosent want me to?
If you want to see my horrible cliche recap here it is. Be warned its not great and it has one of those text to speech voiceovers and such. I feel like i worked hard but at the same time i may have made slop. (please dont steal)
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PeerTube
Have you used peertube, how good is it?
It is very good but needs a couple of big instances to attract people and make videos research more reliable in the fediverse.
They recently released an android app
That good, huh? š
Not so bad but not compatible with all instances. What I noticed in the past, is campaigns against peertube to avoid people from using it, something quite strange (actually disgusting) but a sign that itās probably considered a ādangerousā platform for the established ones
Itās no campaign. There is just a lot more (percentage wise) unfiltered trash on there.
Every respected fediverse application is a potential menace to the actual centralized WWW.
I wonder why no alternatives to peertube have appeared. Only one from the pixelfed dev iirc
IMO PeerTube would be much larger but grifter sites like Rumble and Odyssee/LBRY are sucking a lot of the wind from the YT-alternative ecosystem
Long term IMO PeerTube is the only sensible architecture. federated.
I think they recently updated something to allow finding videos across different instances easier. But I donāt use it, so you will need to look that up.
Here is my instance video.benetou.fr but itās not a community. Itās just me posting videos, sometimes live streaming then keeping and sharing the record.
Unsure on the creator side of things, but besides PeerTube, which uses ActivityPub like Lemmy/Mbin/PieFed, looking at Grayjay's sources list, there are some others, like Rumble, Odysee, BiliBili (Chinese), Nico Nico (Japanese), Dailymotion and Bitchute. Maybe a start to check?
niconico!
Odysee I found it cool when it first released. I checked some time later and it became an echo chamber.
Iāve been enjoying nebula. Def worth $6.50 a month imo but I understand itās not for everyone.
I like and use nebula too, but it isnāt really a community, I donāt think it has any way at all for users to communicate, no comments no profiles etc etc
How much content is there and what type of content?
It was created by youtubers to try and gain independence from youtube, itās
cooperativelyowned by the creators. It is mostly the same as those creators youtube content but with no ads and less ad friendly parts added in, occasionally a creator will put out some passion project that wouldnāt work on an ad supported platform. It skews edutainment and video essay type stuff, contrapoints, strange parts, tom scott, philosophy tube and Not Just Bikes are a few that are involved. Quite a lot of content overall but most of it available on youtube.I donāt know if you meant Joe Scott, or if Tom Scott is someone, but Joe Scott is one of my favorites.
No actually Iām talking about Tom Sott, the variety reporter style content and a signature red shirt. Just checked out Joe scott he seems pretty cool
Okies. Thanks.
So far i havenāt come across something better than odysee. It has a community, but like most alternatives for larger platforms, the userbase is smaller, and often times iāll also find some unhinged conspiratorial comments on there that are kinda off putting to me lol.
If having a community is a requirement for OP, then Iād say Odysee kinda sucks because itās full of National Socialists. Though I primary go there for watching videos, so a few nose emoji spammers donāt bother me.
I also dislike that it shows recommendations/related videos. Thatās an anti-feature of YouTube for me, so I donāt want it on Odysee either. That can be fixed by using a desktop app without recommendations like github.com/trizen/lbry-viewer (not sure if thatās the correct one, I havenāt installed it yet on my current system.)
If you are trying to get monetized, make some $$, a lot of creators are using Youtube as sort of a cross-posting system, ie edited or partial content so they wonāt get a copyright strike, or offend the fascist YT censorship, then in the video reference your Peertube/Odyssey/Rumble for the full version. It helps also to transition or train viewers on alternative platforms.