I need a more privacy-oriented alternative to Youtube. I have try Odysee, which open-source but it has to do with tokens and that seems to me like crypto, which I donโt like. I have heard about Newpipe but this only for Android. Can you recommend me one that is also for the web and optionally open-source?
Sorry for bad english
Quite a few creators have quit Odysee due to the lack of moderation, most recent iโm aware of is TLE/The Linux Experiment.
Apparently the comment sections there are heinous now, personally the last time I visited was several years ago after Louis Rossmann mentioned he was dual uploading there
Nebula is great. But itโs not really a YouTube alternative.
Random people canโt upload videos.
itโs not that easy to find a real Youtube alternative, I tried it recently and got meek results, sharing them from my personal notebook:
- Odysee โ a youtube for righwingers and scammers ๐
- removedute โ a youtube for the far right lost in conspiracy madness ๐คฎ
- DTube โ a youtube that runs on Blockchain? ๐
- Vimeo โ NEXT!
- Daylimotion โ hm, not bad maybe but idk ๐ค
- peertube โ too confusing ๐ตโ๐ซ
- means.tv โ seems nice, but too expensive ๐ข
piped.kavin.rocks or Freetube on PC, Yattee on iOS, Libretube on Android, SmartTubeNext on TV
Iโm a big fan of Piped / Yattee, but I had a lot of problems recently, because most videos wonโt load. Also privacy redirectors that redirect YouTube URLs to Piped donโt work anymore, because the video wonโt load. So I had to watch a couple of videos directly on YT recently.
Possible that YT pushed some API changes or such, which makes it difficult for the privacy proxies to work. Donโt know, but IMHO it used to work much better in the past.
What instances are you using? Because I have little to no issue with my self-hosted one.
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/frontends/#youtube
Peer tube is probably the closest open source freedom loving network, but the content is sparse now.
The search engine is sepiasearch.org
Also from a creators prespective it is neither that easy to use nor cheap. With all there is certainly problematic and wrong with Youtube, itโs a really good service thats hard to beat. Videostreaming demands a lot from servers. Iโve yet to find a way to host vidoes for Peertube in an affordable way where I donโt have to worry about basic stuff. (Any suggestions?)
I donโt know what basic stuff you mean, but as a suggestion if I was looking for cheap servers with high storage and unlimited high speed bandwidth, Iโd look at seedboxes.
An example on the first hit gives you: 1TB of space, 20Gbit unlimited up and management features for โฌ14.95
I havenโt used this company but I have used other seedboxes
