In my journey to #degoogle myself, today after many years, I have deactivated my YouTube premium account. Was a challenge to setup LibreTube for the wife and kids and to bring over all their subscriptions, but I think it will be worth it in the long run. My biggest challenge right now is to find a solution with #tutanota to sync my Android contacts and calender so I can close down my Gmail account. @degoogle
My journey ultimately led to newpipe x sponsor block. Libretube just wasn’t doing it for me.
Started with tutanota, but didn’t stay… other options you might research… proton, mxroute, and migadu.
@coolie15 Thing I like about LibreTube is that I can point it to my own hosted Invidious instance. This way I am also in control of the backend
The only thing that keeps me from deleting my Google account is my favorite game, which requires Google Services and account. I don’t know if it’ll work with microG. Also, I asked the game support if they’re planning to deGoogle it. They said they’re considering it, but after 6 months, still nothing…
I’m considering taking this journey myself. thanks for the insight.
How do you deal with the issue of discovery?
@fomo_erotic It’s a great journey. Can you elaborate what you mean by the issue of discovery?
What I mean by discovery is the finding of new and interesting content. For example, via YouTube it does track my viewing and it gives me some novelty via playlists. There are also channels that find new music and aggregate it.
I’m always in the hunt for novelty in media and a concern ive had and have experienced with mine own Lemmy instance is that of discovery, or finding new content.
Basically a big part I like about digital music is that I find stuff I never would have known about. If I’m going self hosted, it seems like this would get very much more limited.
@fomo_erotic I generally look at the suggested content below the video I am watching and it generally works in exposing me to new content. I use LibreTube but I am not sure if the same is available for other FOSS apps.
Yeah I guess that might work. it’s just the effort part and the self selection issue.
I’ve got some scripts I put together for doing network analysis of yiutube. I’ll have to look into some of these programs and see if I could extend them into a personalized content recommendation system. Someday when I finish all my other projects (😂)
If you use LibreTube, you’re still dependent on Google services. Use something like peertube to get “truely degoogled”.
I know you’re not going to. YouTube has become such a big source for information gathering and we no longer can get rid of it.
