Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish
thecodemonk@programming.dev 8 months agoSo help me out here… I’ve tried to ditch YouTube a couple of times. I currently have a family premium sub. Since it’s now like 22 a month, I’d love to save it for something else.
I watch a ton of electronics repair, ham radio, and car repair channels. Some of these channels have only 2k to 100k subs, some much less, like 10. I also look up a lot of how to repair videos a lot when working on my own broken crap (lawn mower, washer, etc).
I tried peertube twice and it’s just not it. Nebula doesn’t have the content. What else is there? I just can’t seem to find a good replacement. Once I can find something for myself, it might be possible to get my wife and kids switched, but it would have to be a lot of gaming videos, make-up tutorials, and freaking happy planner stuff… I just don’t think any other service is going to have this content.
I do prefer finding blog style articles for the repair stuff, but it seems that ship has sailed now. Everything is a video now.
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t have the answer, sorry.
This is what I am saying though. It’s will be difficult to transition but if we never start it will never be reality.
I’ll tell you what I am doing. I am forcing myself to only use youtube through the browser and only when it is most convenient. I don’t use it for music. I don’t go to it for tutorials on things that I already have a base understanding of and can find information elsewhere. I am just basically trying to live my life like it does not exsist.
That’s good for me but some people are set, and I get that.
Though I will say, if there was some hobbiest youtube content with low subs I would start asking them for alternative ways to view their content. These people just want to get their content out there and if they have to go through as many channels as possible my feeling is they would be more than willing.