Hi everyone, I’ve been following the de-google-ify internet campaign of framasoft for several years now and have replace a lot of GAFAM services doing so but the only service I’m truly struggling with replacing is youtube.

I could never find anything with enough interesting content and I always find myself going back to youtube.

What about you?

  • did you stop using youtube?
  • where do you go instead?
  • do you just spend less time watching videos?

I prefer decentralized solutions but any FLOSS alternative is a good start.

  • DessalinesA
    11•2 years ago

    Its really surprising to me that more channels don’t put their content on torrents… that’s what I do at least.

    Torrents don’t really handle content discovery, but they have pretty much solved the static data distribution problem. Something with even 2 or 3 available seeders can’t be shut down.

    Most torrent clients can even handle rss feeds, which would work perfectly for most youtube like channels. All that we’re really missing is these existing platforms like peertube using torrents directly (maybe through a native client or browser plugins ) instead of webtorrents, which haven’t gone anywhere for many years now.

    • Tmpod
      5•2 years ago

      Yeah, torrents are great. I’ve started using torrents to share files with other people are instead of using ffsend (which is great too), and it’s very nice.

      It would indeed be cool if you could seed videos you really liked through a conventional torrent client.

    • @Thann
      2•2 years ago

      Whats wrong or even different with “webtorrents”? I thought it was just a torrent client written in JS?

      you’re saying transmission or deluge should have a firefox plugin to facilitate watching videos that have been downloaded with them?

      EDIT: I guess the problem is that you don’t get to control seeding? maybe peertube just needs some UI features for that 🤔

      • Tmpod
        5•2 years ago

        Whats wrong or even different with “webtorrents”? I thought it was just a torrent client written in JS?

        WebTorrent is a distinct protocol from BitTorrent, that uses WebRTC instead of UDP/TCP. It aims to be as compatible with BitTorrent as feasible.
        This has to exist because implementing the latter is impossible to implement on browsers, with JS.

        I highly recommend you take a look at the Wikipedia article.

        • @Thann
          4•2 years ago

          oh, yeah, that makes a lot of sense. thanks

    • @testman
      1•2 years ago

      Isn’t PeerTube basically “torrents with at least one guaranteed seeder”?