Do we have any alternative to YouTube?
I want to make some videos, but I do not want to add them to TY, I am looking for an alternative, unfortunately I know Vimeo, but this is not what I am looking for.
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@baldur@normals.me PeerTube. I would recommend hosting your own instance and or finding an affordable provider. You can ask those that want to post for donations or subscriptions to help cover costs
There’s always peertube. It’s light on content, but that’s all the more reason, be the change you want to see in the world. You can always mirror them on YouTube and elsewhere
Like 2 year ago I rented a yearly vps for 60$ a year, 4 core 6gb ram 160gb ssd, same deal same from the same site now gives you 60gb ssd, so it isn’t as viable to cheaply host your content.
Prob plenty for yourself if videos are compressed, but hosting for multiple ppl definitely got more expensive to the point where it’s not as viable to spin up a peertube instance compared to any other.
Unfortunately, not really.
The Fediverse alternatives to YouTube are not functional equivalents like Lemmy or Mastodon are to Reddit and Twitter.
Software? Dozens.
Content? Nothing.
Well not nothing, there are some other providers like nebula but that too one day will become a corporate money slop because that is what these companies do.
What I mean is that the problem is and always has been the content, the media.
You’ll need to specify what you’re looking for but YT is a global monopoly for online content creators
Do you want to find an audience for your content, or do you just want to upload your content?
The former can be achieved with where we are right now, the latter with a number of file uploading sites that allow hotlinking their uploads.
We are starting next two releases of Normals to allow users to create audio streaming for their communities. However we still are unsure if allowing video streaming can be possible. Unfortunately our infrastructure does not allow it for videos. The idea is to find an alternative (not YouTube) for them to upload them after it finishes.
First I tell you what filter I’m using and so you change your post footer to avoid it, so you can continue to spam the fediverse with links to your instance.
Now you are looking for somewhere to leech video storage from.
Goddam. You’re really determined to burn through any and all goodwill, aren’t you.
I don’t get it. So do you want to find an audience or just store videos somewhere?
YouTube alternatives are so far only good to just dump a video and share the link with a friend.
For anything more than that, YouTube is still the only viable option.
Please don’t just dump your user uploads on someone’s else’s infrastructure unless you’re paying for their upkeep.
Please elaborate better you question because it is unclear what you want to communicate.
You can use this page as a catalogue btw: https://grayjay-sources.github.io/
However, as overarching and as big as Youtube, there's none, so you'll have to contend with nicher platforms for niche subjects. Like e.g. for Youtube Shorts-style videos, Odysee, Loops or TikTok.
Loops btw, isn't supported on Grayjay yet, but uses ActivityPub, meaning you can follow users from Mastodon, Mbin, Misskey, etc.
Though, closer to Youtube, afaik only Odysee and Rumble in size and premise, and Nico Nico and Peertube just in premise. Also on Peertube specifically, as mentioned before, it uses ActivityPub, so people on compatible softwares can follow either the channels (e.g. from Lemmy), or the people posting the contents (e.g. from Mastodon).
You could try Nebula.
What's the link? Could you please share it? I just searched it but it shows me different things
Nebula.tv but it’s not a lead worth following. Nebula is great but they’re not going to take on a new creator who isn’t already established.
Peertube has very little on it. Linux. One makeup girl. Loyal Moses.
And Kumiai-Ki 👌
Peertube has many thousands of videos. They're just not all accessible from any particular instance. This is why I use Grayjay. You can search PT and YT videos at the same time.
Ahh! But that one is for shorts!
Check out https://clip.place. It’s a PeerTube-based site with open registration.
I gave up on peertube (especially the app) when I couldn’t find a server with open registration. And it is one of the messier services to host that I’ve tried. I dont even want to post videos. I just wanted to find cool videos and follow them.
Instead of recommending “peertube” itself we should point to servers that have open registration or even better, peerseek.video since the platform is useless without decent discovery tools.
That #Loops looks more decent. The PeerTube took me to a landing page, it was very difficult to find videos there. Thanks! :)
I like loops, but it looks to be heavily ai assisted lately. Doesn’t bother me, because it actually made decent progress and looks way less dated now. I just find it funny how as long as a dev obscures or doesn’t mention it, no one seems to notice. Catadon looks pretty interesting too, hella bloated and the ui has some odd choices but it has some potential. It’s at least getting some ideos out there and showing they can work.
It’s decentralized. You need servers.
he PeerTube took me to a landing page,
joinpeertube.org itself does not host videos.
Look here: https://joinpeertube.org/instances
People need to stop recommending server directories to the newbies. People genuinely don’t grok how ActivityPub works out of the gate, and they trip all over that shit. There’s only a handful of open registration PeerTube sites, anyway. We should just point them to, like, clip.place.
Yes, I linked to both project’s main sites/pages. For PeerTube, you need to choose an instance like https://peertube.tv/
I searched for PeerTube, it took me here https://joinpeertube.org/browse-content and then I clicked one video and then it took me to https://spectra.video/ is this how it works? I am confused.
As a person who loves peertube, this is one of its bigger issues. An easy to use instance, searchability, and custom recommendations algorithms would be killer.
Feel free to post to: !peertube@lemmy.world
If/when you do end up posting videos. If you want to.
PeerTube is like lemmy, mastadon, or Pixelfed having multiple instances that are connected.
Additionally, and poking @baldur on that too since iirc Baldur's the guy behind the Normals instance, Peertube's channels are usually treated as communities by Lemmy and the sort.
I primarly do gaming videos and livestreams.
I like Rumble and have decent interaction on my gaming videos and livestreams.
Bitchute is filled with botviews. I had 0 comments on any of my videos the past 3 years and had triple the views compared to YT or Rumble.
Odysee I don’t really like it. I had no views or comments on any of my videos (syndicated with my YT channel)
Peertube sucks. I feel I can’t find videos without going through several instances. Really hard for uploaders as each instant has their own rules and file/length size.
My channels
YT
Rumble
Bitchute
Odysee
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Bitchute
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Rumble
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