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Is PeerTube a good Youtube alternative? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Auster@kbin.social to c/fediverse@kbin.social

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Also, since back when I last looked for youtube alternatives, many that seemed good turned out to use things like NFT and the sort, I feel compelled to ask:
Does it use technologies such as that, or are its instances just plain usual self-hosted sites?

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[–] hetscop@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on in what way you're looking for a youtube alternative!

I think peertube might be fine if you're looking for a way to host your own videos, but it's propably not a good place to just browse for video content the way you might with youtube. I think the most solid alternative for that is Nebula. It costs like a dollar a month IIRC and has a couple big name video easayist kind of types. It doesn't really have anything to do with the fediverse or anything, but a majority of it is owned by the creators and from what I understand it is more generous per view than youtube, plus it has a buissiness model that doesn't rely on serving you adds and selling your data.

[–] Auster@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Iirc, Nebula is one of those NFT video hosting sites I found, so not much of an option. And regarding lack of contents, all social medias start like that, so I don't see it as a problem per se, since it can potentially still grow.

[–] CanOpener@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Maybe you found a different Nebula? https://nebula.tv/ is subscription based and has nothing to do with NFTs.

[–] impiri@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I think you have this mixed up with something else. The Nebula service described above is at https://nebula.tv/

[–] Xeelee@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

That's completely wrong. Nebula has nothing to do with NFTs whatsoever.