Which Youtube alternative do you prefer to use and why? I’ve found PeerTube, Odysee, and Rumble. Thoughts on any of these?
I found some good music streaming on peer tube but honestly I haven’t found any other creators that I have a strong enough interest to watch. I set up new pipe and linked it into peer tube I just can’t find even remotely engaging video.
Even though it’s paid, I prefer Nebula. It’s got a good selection of creators that either moved completely there from YT or offer the same vids ad free and uncensored. The payment is extremely reasonable annually. Highly recommend.
I’ll give it a look tonight. I was looking at Floatplane, but they simply don’t have many creators.
Peertube for me. Ive found some people who dont post on yt or other places. Plus my dog has a channel with over 300 subscribers. Makes me happy.
I wouldn’t compare Rumble to the other two, it’s just yet another YouTube. PeerTube and Odysee are at least built with the idea of decentralization. Odysee has the best user experience.
Nearly all channels I follow are on YouTube and no where else. To make YT less of a privacy issue, I use frontends. PipePipe on Android and Freetube on Linux.
Same. And because I can’t contribute with the platform, I donate directly via Buy me Coffee or Ko-fi.
- PeerTube: YouTube for geeks (the good one)
- Odysee: YouTube for the alt-right (not the worst platform I’ve ever used, but in my opinion not worth it either)
- Rumble: YouTube for nazis and conspiracy theorists (avoid)
I also prefer PeerTube because it has more of the accounts I subscribe to on YouTube than the other two.
I also quite like Invidious, Nebula, and Floatplane.
I created an Odyssey account and started blocking all of the alt-right bullshit. I assumed that at some point I would be left with a fairly decent signal to noise ratio.
There’s not enough redeeming content on Odyssey to make it worth it. By the time you eliminate all the wackadoos, racists, peppers, and scam artists there’s like three or four people actually generating interesting content, and I suspect two of those are just people copying other people’s YouTube channels trying to make some crypto coin off of them.
Invidious is a Youtube front end (nothing bad about that per se, it just connects to the same google servers) and Nebula as well as Floatplane are paid afaik.
I’ll checkout those three suggestions later today
Invidious is a YouTube frontend. This instance is the only one still working after Google went on the offensive.
Nebula is a paid platform that is run by the creators who use it. Loads of intellectual fibre and original content.
Floatplane (also paid) is a Patreon-esque platform owned by Linus Media Group (who also manage Linus Tech Tips). I only used it to watch DankPods, though.
I just tried several Invidios instances and they worked.
Use it almost daily and always find several instances are working.
There is also Vimeo.
However, none of these is a true alternative to YouTube in terms of content.
Chicken / egg.
Of course, but in this case “being an alternative” really depends on the goal. To produce content they may be all valid, to monetise content there will be differences, but to consume content none is really comparable to YouTube.
PeerTube: YouTube for geeks (the good one)
Meh not really.
I tried Peertube’s intro website once and it directed me to a gore site almost immediately.
No thanks.
Peertube has the same problem as Lemmy. When you look it up you get technical whitepapers instead of a simple video streaming site.
I use all three of them.
Tubular
