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.
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.
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.
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.
Meh not really.