Nebula is trying to be the alternative. It’s a paid subscription and not as plentiful as YouTube is (and maybe never will be).
But it’s a good try, give it some support, if you can
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months agoYouTube is the only one that doesn’t have an alternative. I mean, there are other video hosts yes, but the content isn’t there.
The creators need to start moving. Their fans will likely follow, since it’s not YouTube they are there for. But I don’t think anyone else offering free, large scale video hosting does much more, if even that, than what YouTube does. Even if it sucks, it’s better than nothing, so there is no incentive to move for anyone.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 6 months ago
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
It isn’t much better in terms of content moderation though. In fact probably worst.
They kicked off JT, of Second Thought one of the original creators, for refusing to make a both sides statement about Palestine.
Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
With the news of Google’s new deal with Israel, I was considering Nebula. That is sad to hear.
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Consider MeansTV instead
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Most of their fans won’t follow. Convenience is a powerful thing.
There also really aren’t other options. Anyone being able to sign up and host video for free is an extremely expensive service to provide if people take you up on it.
deleted@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I tried Nabula twice. The latest in 2020.
Service is fine but their UI + search and discover is awful. Like I can barely find creators I like when I search for their exact channel name.
starman@programming.dev 6 months ago
There is also PeerTube and Odysee.
But I have a mixed feelings on the latter.
ZeroTwo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Some of the creators I follow are moving… Kind of. Most of their videos get taken down for some stupid ass reason so they’re going to places like patreon and whatever other platform you have to pay a monthly sub to. Which at that point, I just don’t watch them.
xyx@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Problem being that there is no real incentive to do so, unless PeerTube finds a way to pay content creators. Until then, switching away from YouTube means loosig their revenue stream…requiring them to take up jobs to pay the bills and eventually have less time for content creation.
Living on donations and patreon alone is hard…
Ignacio@kbin.social 6 months ago
Google is a for-profit organization. Framasoft, which developed PeerTube, is a non-profit one. The only way to pay content creators is when people donate money to PeerTube and then PeerTube share that money with creators. Which is also difficult because there are no trackers to know internally who has more subscribers or which video has more views, etc.