• dbkblk@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      There’s Peertube as an alternative. It lacks some content, but the platform is on par. It is developed by a French association called Framasoft. Thus said, you’re right, Youtube is still okay, even thus there are some fake videos and scam, but they are easy to avoid.

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        9 hours ago

        Peertube sucks ass, so much content simply not even there, most videos don’t work or they’re in either mostly french or russian, and this is on the biggest instances.

        Now I might be stupid, but I really don’t see how peertube is an alternative. Odysee or rumble are my personal best bets, but in case of youtube it’s hard to find a real alternative in my opinion. Especially as a creator.

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          7 hours ago

          “This centralized website sucks, let’s fix it with the same thing!” Last time I used Odysee it was full of tinfoil hat flat earthers. Rumble is youtube for people that got banned from youtube, and Odysee is youtube with the block chain pointlessly added to it. If either site ever hits youtube’s size they’ll just become the same issue youtube is, enshitification is bound to happen. I know having options is better than a monopoly, and Peertube admittedly is rough, but I think as it’s decentralized and self hosted it is the better option.

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            1 hour ago

            Rumble is youtube for people that got banned from youtube

            I thought that was BitChute? Or is Rumble BitChute but not banned from all posts on Reddit (Reddit did a global block of all BitChute links as part of the attempt to black hole the video of the Christchurch shooting and the video the shooter’s manifesto suggests was what pushed him over the edge into action).

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              15 minutes ago

              That’s fair, I like mental outlaw, and there’s nothing wrong with spreading your eggs out to other baskets. Having alternatives is better for sure, I just don’t think we should flock over to these centralized options as the defacto alternative.

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          9 hours ago

          I agree. I don’t use it for these reasons. But technologically speaking, it’s an open source alternative.