youtube getting more aggressive… i’ve got firefox and ublock but this shit is still coming up

  • Babalugats@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What’s realistically the closest to YouTube today? Like Lemmy, small acorns need bigger communities 😁 Slow, but it’ll happen. It’s also not a bad thing to have people used to switching platforms every x amount of years. That aside, does a VPN work, or Newpipe?

    I’m in EU, not getting any ads yet on Firefox or Newpipe.

    • Teils13@lemmy.eco.br
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      1 year ago

      Depends on how you consider several subjective factors, including political, economical, technological and ownership/control.

      Closest to lemmy might be TILvids (Today I Learned videos) → https://tilvids.com

      They use Peertube protocol (FOSS), are sustained by donations (patreon), and there is a few big FOSS influencers there already, like the french developer from The Linux Experiment.

      There is a few corporations that are pretty much national versions of youtube, like Nikoniko (Japan), Rutube (Russia), VK (Russia), Bilibili (China), Aparat (Iran) etc that would be nice if they were competitors cause they already have all the infrastructure in place to receive everything in youtube in one swop if we neeeded, but alas they obviously will not be taken. (sorry nikoniko)

      There is some minor corporations like Odysee, Rumble, Dailymotion, Vimeo. But they are still private profit-driven corporations, so they can go the youtube way eventually. There is some rumours that Tiktok might launch a separate app and site for youtube-style videos too, but again, it is another private corporation and controversial.

      The scale of capital needed for video hosting is several orders of magnitude bigger than text and images, this is why youtube became a de facto monopoly on most parts of the world. There is several text-driven social media sites, including this one, but only one big youtube.

    • yessikg
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      1 year ago

      Nebula is the closest but it’s paid and it’s pretty hard for content creators to be invited to join. Next closest is Peertube, which NewPipe works with very well