I’m not in love with YouTube, and it only lets me upload a small number a day. Is there a good alternative?

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            Which is really bad value. Don’t do that unless you need the accessibility of Google drive.

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              Which is really bad value

              What is a good value alternative? With the accessibility and usability of Google Drive, it feels like quite good value to me. But maybe I don’t know of the possible alternatives.

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                I meant value purely as in $/TB without factoring in all the other properties.

                You can get object storage for $6-$7/TB/month from the likes of Wasabi and Backblaze.

                For a more “fair” comparison, you can get Onedrive for $6/TB (+M$'s office suite) or 2TB for $10 at Dropbox, so $5/TB.

                Though I guess Google does have a little more cost effective plan for $10/2TB aswell that I didn’t know about.

                For reference: Google’s 100G and 200G plans are $20/TB and $15/TB respectively. I’d call a 3-4x higher price “really bad value”.

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                  For me, the big differentiator is Google photos, I find it very effective and easy to use. I will take the price hit for that convenience.

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                  Because you’re comparing apple to oranges, even if it seems like the same service, is a tiny portion of what google offers.

                  Google sells it’s suite as a whole. Gdrive ties into you email, drop a file and it links to drive, calendar, sharing permissions, Enterprise/Organization settings, including everything its proprietary technology (sheets, docs, slides, Photos etc…) can do with Drive.

                  Of course google wants to push you to the premium tier, and doesn’t need to offer as good of a deal to do so because you already get so much for free. I’m not arguing it’s not more expensive, but people pay for all that convenience from a “trusted” brand that 99% of people know how to use.

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    You can share on Google photos (it does video too) and you can send it to people without accounts I think

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        People are probably downvoting because Pixelfed is meant to be a community platform, not a file host. Using it to dump large files onto without ever expecting to engage in the community is using up somebody else’s resources selfishly, making Pixelfed a poor choice for your stated purposes.

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      Does this keep them private, and accessible by URL to friends and family who don’t have accounts?

      I assume if OP is sharing videos to friends and family they don’t want them public, and of course they won’t want all those friends and family to have to sign up for accounts just to be able to view them.

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    Maybe not quite on the spot, but a Storage Share (hosted nextcloud) from Hetzner might be an option.

    Bonus features and info: You can also share other files, location, calendars, contacts etc. They have a compliant data protection agreement, and are fully GDPR compliant.

    Hetzner Storage Share: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share

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    PeerTube might be good

    If you’re not really into the fediverse thing, try Vimeo or something, you know, just as an archive of your personal stuff or something

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      Unfortunately it’s also a hotspot for right wing conspiracy theories and racism. I tried it for awhile and was completely baffled by what they allowed.

      At one point they updated their terms of service to ban racism and it was the most disliked community post they’d ever made.

      It’s been like a year tho so maybe it’s better now

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        I’ve never seen any of that. I would assume you’d have to go looking to find it. I just subscribe to comedy and tech channels. They’re pretty much the same channels I subscribe to on YouTube. I just try to use alternatives to YouTube whenever I can.

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    Not quite the question, but depending on how exactly you want to share, you could just enable a web server on one of your devices, forward a port, and host it yourself until they have the files.

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    Telegram. Set up a Telegram group, upload the videos there. Have full control over who sees the videos.

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      How does this work if the friends and family don’t use that particular instant messenger, or have a smartphone (don’t forget that many older people have simple phones or use them in simple ways, and a PC)?

      Can they access the photos and videos with external links? If so, that sounds reasonable. Assuming OP is able to transfer the photos and videos to their phone for this too, I think telegram is just a phone application but I’m not entirely sure.