People can always just stop using YouTube. It’s getting laughable the level of Stockholm syndrome people have for that shit service.
this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2024
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I pay for Nebula and, although there's a lot to watch there, skimming through the boring stuff is horrible.
It’s good to see alternatives. I am not at the point where I need to see online videos badly enough that I’d pay for it- but it’s good to know that it exists.
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The problem is, there's just no (good) direct competition. The audience will follow creators once enough of them switch to the same alternative platform. But as long as there's no platform with a comparable amount of money behind it, most people will continue to use Youtube.
There doesn’t need to be direct competition. Just stop watching YouTube. If someone cannot do that- they have an addiction, and ads are not their biggest problem.
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That's a fair point. There's a million things you could do, and watching videos on YT is just one of them. Watching videos online has become a large part of peoples lives. Surely it has a lot to offer, but we should probably not forget it also replaces a lot of things, things we would spent are time on otherwise, if we didn't have YT as an easy time-drain, and those other things are presumably equally rewarding or more so.
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Oh that's why no videos would load.
Damn it
Self hosted option is a docker image. Probably not difficult to set up.
Start asking your favourite content creators to post on PeerTube.
on which instance?
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Right now we have no other solutions/fixes. You may be able to get Invidious working on residential IP addresses (like at home) but on datacenter IP addresses Invidious won't work anymore.
This might explain why mine has been reliable even though it hasn't been updated in months. I guess add me to the list of confirmations that it works on residential connections.
I would suggest the devs to be able to create instances from within tor. It would be slow, but impossible to block. Or from any other network that don’t rely on single IP access to YouTube . Or, make a mesh of collaborative home instances. Google can’t block millions of home IPs. Or use any mesh collaborative network capable of it.
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You can block YouTube ads simply by connecting to an Albanian VPN server.
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Didn't Odysee recently removed ads? Anyway, I think I'll start watching videos on Odysee and peertube, via RSS feeds. At least from youtubers that upload there.