I thought odysee is a better alternative for youtube and offers much more privacy. But it’s not. So disappointed.

Feeling hard to quit youtube because of other platforms doesn’t have much better or quality contents expecially no instance of peertube is truly usable. 🤥

  • foremanguy@lemmy.ml
    201·
    3 months ago

    Today there’s no good alternative to YouTube, you can only change the front end… Today you cannot challenge YouTube, just because it needs to host PBs of datas, financially you can’t just afford it.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      We need decentralized tech. If a company comes along that figures out how to significantly lower hosting cost YouTube is screwed

      • superkret@feddit.org
        81·
        3 months ago

        No company can afford to host video for people who aren’t willing to see ads, give up personal info or pay for the service. Where would they get their hosting costs from?

        • refalo@programming.dev
          5·
          3 months ago

          No company can afford to host

          If it were decentralized in a way that is utilizing the bandwidth of its users, that is one possible solution I think

          • pathief@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 months ago

            It sounds like a good idea but my experience with Peertube has been really bad. Bandwith is a very serious problem, even for small instances. They need to impose severe restrictions on user registration and upload limits and even then I feel like it’s hard to break even.

            • refalo@programming.dev
              1·
              3 months ago

              Yep I think there is too much content to realistically keep around in a true decentralized fashion when you’re limiting the storage to only the ones who consume your content in the first place.

          • OfficerBribe@lemm.ee
            1·
            3 months ago

            Storage is another issue. Will you store / seed random YT videos on your PC? You need to make sure you have enough copies so things are available and that there is adequate bandwidth so you do not wait multiple minutes for video to start.

            Reliable video sharing sites with tons of content like YT / Vimeo makes sense only being centralized and they must have some kind of monetization like ads or subscriptions.

      • foremanguy@lemmy.ml
        3·
        3 months ago

        The only option will be to use all the users to seed the videos to others, but for this the app need a lot of users

        • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
          2·
          3 months ago

          I suspect that’s fraught with copyright challenges, though it does seem like a fantastic approach on the face of it.