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google hasn't done much with YouTube yet
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.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, if this isn't the understatement of the century.
Yep it has no content at all I would ever want to watch and I tried to give it a fair shake. That said I recognise YouTube is pretty much the Monopoly of all Monopolys and don't know how to fix that.
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.
"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.
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).
im subscribed to many privacy creators on odysee like mental outlaw
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.
But, in a way we kind of have to. Barely anyone uses say, peertube, for example. And here I'm talking the mainstream consumers.
Now is peertube and all the other alternatives great for privacy? Yes! Absolutely. Censorship resistant? Yup that too (atleast peertube is) but barely any of the mainstream cares about about privacy, and they simply want something that's convenient.
I mean fuck, if you want a censorship resistent, open source, no javascript service that works on tor etc etc something something privacy, but only 5 videos to watch (massive hyperbole here) by all means use the alternatives. But most users either don't know about the sites/services, don't care or simply find it inconvenient to use and navigate.
I agree. I don't use it for these reasons. But technologically speaking, it's an open source alternative.
I hate to break it to you, but even as an open source advocate, open source alone, doesn't mean it's better automatically; Atleast not for the uses you (the consumer) need to fulfill. Though the argument about privacy holds very much up here, and it's simply better in all aspects in regards to that.
Also many open source programs and apps, and everything in between, that I've come across, lacks basic features, which, atleast for my sake, turns my off almost instantly.