Sunshine@piefed.caObviously first of all, Peertube! but video is perhaps the biggest challenge for the fediverse, even if simply just because of the amount of data storage needed…
I think the best way to quit youtube together however may not be to directly replace youtube yet. Instead, when linking to youtube use Invidious (such as inv.nadeko.net) links that strip all the icky stuff from youtube links for you and let people interface with youtube in a healthier way that gives everyone more agency (*I recommend linking the raw youtube link too just to make sure links don’t break eventually*).
Finally and most importantly in my opinion Google has done an awful job of fostering communities around their video content and I think THIS is where we can beat youtube. We shouldn’t try to beat youtube at youtube, we should focus on building lemmy/threadiverse/fediverse communities around themes that feature a lot of video content, and using the above strategies link to still mainly youtube but also include alternate fediverse video links more and more as that part of the fediverse increases.
Does it really matter if we end up at youtube to watch the video if the context of why we are watching the video and the conversation we will have after watching the video is all actually located on the fediverse? Remember, youtube comments are worthless so if you want to see how people feel about a video where do you go? Our answer should resoundingly be THE FEDIVERSE!
Google has made a massive strategic error here similar to the way they have done nothing/been actively hostile to a cottage community of android app reviewers on other platforms that people could learn to trust in favor of centering Google’s pathetic casino scam storefront algorithm…. In both cases they have shot themselves in the foot at a strategic scale.
If we build more video heavy communities here around topics like woodworking or whatever than even if most of the videos posted are still from youtube it creates the opportunity for change, and that is where we can make a difference I think. At any point a youtube heavy lemmy/threadiverse community can shift towards linking more to other video platforms including fediverse ones, there is no actual lock in and that is what we should be focusing on at this early stage of federated video communities in my opinion.
TL;DR
Communities With Interesting Discussions About “Content” > Raw Content!
What makes youtube so encompassingly dominant in the longform video medium also makes it existentially vulnerable, i.e. youtube tries to encompass the entire conversation and community around video and does such a bad job of it that it leaves the door wide open for us to connect that shattered landscape of youtube back into something meaningful and trustable for people.
Pennywise@quokk.au
To me, unless you want to be a boring hermit that only listens to music from your childhood and has no clue what is going on in the world, there’s certain things that can’t just be dropped. Because while we’re cutting out YouTube, why stop there? You might as well cut out any music released by a major record label while you’re at it too, and only watch movies that are exclusive to film festivals for indie artistes.
Personally, my YouTube feed is 95% music. And if the algorithm is serving you nothing but right wing AI slop, it must be something that you’re doing wrong there.
I’d love to drop YouTube but I’m afraid that I won’t be dropping it for some fediverse equivalent with two random people posting OC either. At this point I’m trying to find my way back to the world and actually have interesting things to talk about.