There has been a lot of work done to create decentralized freedom-respecting services in recent years. (Lemmy is obviously one of these). That being said video hosting seems to be one of the hardest things to replace with a decentralized solution since video files are so large and therefore expensive to host. The only serious attempt at a decentralized youtube replacement I’ve heard of is LBRY, but I have a general skepticism about blockchain-based businesses, and the available technical information released by the company behind LBRY does not alleviate those concerns. I don’t really have any solutions to this issue, I currently just use youtube with sandboxing, but this is obviously not a great situation. Curious about everyone else’s thoughts.

  • federateduser
    8·
    4 years ago

    You may already know this, but there’s a decentralized proxy service for watching youtube videos called invidious. Find a reliable instance from instances.invidio.us and enjoy a cleaner youtube experience without all the tracking stuff. It even works without javascript and doesn’t show frequent recaptcha pages while on tor.
    Go to the preferences page and make sure the proxy video option is enabled. This will make sure you never connects to google for video streams. Note that enabling proxy may slow down your network, so choose a reliable instance.

    Peertube is my recommended alternative for leaving youtube behind. Use sepiasearch.org for searching videos on peertube vidiverse.

  • wholesomedonut
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    4 years ago

    Id say Peertube but only if you cut out all the political BS, both right AND left. It permeates the major instances from what I’ve seen, or at least all the big ones federate with those posters still.

    Another note is to use the new HEVC / H.265 codec if you’re wanting smaller files that are very easily adopted by modern tech. I can cut gigabytes off of my files between an H264 and a 265 render at the same quality presets.

  • LanyrdSkynrd@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Nebula is a creator owned streaming service. I haven’t used it, but a lot of my favorite YouTube creators upload to it first. It’s not really a replacement for YouTube because there isn’t an ad supported tier. It’s more used as a way for creators who already have an audience to get a fair revenue split on a subscription service.

  • bbhtt
    11·
    3 years ago

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