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what is the alternative to youtube? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by autotel@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world

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Hi! sorry for the random topic 😅

Youtube keeps getting more and more annoying. Is there a good other platform where to migrate? If people were to migrate, where would they go?

the thing I liked about youtube is the massive amount of content, and knowing that if I upload a video, it's really easy to watch by others. I like the ability to follow channels too.

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[–] rockhandle@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Being realistic here, there's no worthwhile competitor to youtube at this point in time. You have some stuff like odysee, LBRY, peertube etc. However, the amount of content on them is basically nothing compared to youtube and there's little incentive for creators to move there due to how difficult it would be to monetise your content in those places.

My best pick would be invidious which is a private & ad-free yt frontend that uses it's own API and doesn't need JS. I already use it all the time. It's good.

[–] lemmy_see@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TT frontend that uses its own API And doesn’t need JS

How is any of that possible? Can you explain?

how can it deliver content from YouTube without accessing their APIs?
how can it be a functional website without JavaScript?

[–] ethLabsAlpha@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I am not sure but possibly the HTML5 features such as the video tag are sufficient to let the browser offer basic media playback capabilities without requiring JS.

[–] WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I need to check out invidious, been trying to put some stuff on peertube ...

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

It's just a YouTube front end and they've been having difficulty showing videos as of late.

[–] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

iirc, one of the few alternatives actually endorsed by content creators [Wendover is the only name which comes to mind right now, probably because they are involved in creating it] was Nebula