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what is the alternative to youtube? (self.general)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by autotel to c/general

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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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[–] mightyfoolish 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As @[email protected] said, the software PeerTube exists. However, due to the extreme costs of video hosting, a general purpose PeerTube instance does not exist. It would cost alot for video storage and more importantly moderators to ensure content is not illegal.

Maybe if we all paid @[email protected] like $20/month we could get PeerTube.world

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It would be nice if peertube had an integrated subscription/payment method so you could support and subscribe to content you enjoy.

[–] grue 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

What we need is for PeerTube to use ActivityPub for the searching and listing, but something like Bittorrent to distribute the load of the content delivery.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

I believe that's already built into PeerTube. The p2p (torrentlike) aspect that is.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

You are literally describing PeerTube.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Isn't that exactly how peertube works? https://framatube.org/w/kkGMgK9ZtnKfYAgnEtQxbv

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Haven't read up on PeerTube, but I imagine that you would still need to keep a copy of the video stored somewhere centrally if you don't want it going away when no one is watching it anymore, so even if p2p can help reduce bandwidth costs, you still have storage costs.