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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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One thing to keep in mind beyond hosting cost is the uploader making money. YouTubes partner or paid channel things work (there are complaints) it's a LOT harder to replace those freeas add revenue pays them

[–] grue 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Patreon, and better yet, Liberapay, already exist.

[–] lemmy_see 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What’s Liberapay and how does it fair against Patreon?

[–] grue 7 points 2 years ago

I've never used it myself, but the TL;DR is that it's supposed to be basically like Patreon, except that:

it is itself a non-profit organization that funds itself via donations to its own account instead of taking a cut of the payments to others,
its software is Open Source, and
it only allows donations to creators (i.e., creators aren't allowed to provide rewards in exchange for the payment -- apparently, this is at least in part to avoid having to charge VAT).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

sadly does not help smaller creators or starting creators. Want you to think if you paid 1-3$ per creator you watched. you would be less likely to watch as many. sadly adds/commercials work.