I use ad blocker and brave on phone to access so it’s less cancerous but occasionally I see it unfiltered and good God is it awful.
I love the idea of peertube but it’s very awkward to use and people freak out about the P2P streaming. But a fediverse video site seems ideal: smaller instances so no one instance needs to be able to host extreme amounts of data… although there’s always risk that one instance becomes a monopoly and defederates from everything, and we’ll have the same issue again (actually I fully expect something like this to happen on fediverse in general).
Dailymotion is one option I guess? But I don’t see people talk about it much? Am I missing something?
There’s sleebi for ASMR but it’s a teeny tiny thing. Still paid for it tho.
None of course matter if there aren’t content creators actually making content. On the other hand, on a smaller platform more people have a chance to be seen.
Unless someone coughs up a few billion euro, no. Hosting video on any sort of scale is incredibly, incredibly expensive.
You need advertising yes or yes to finance that. Sadly Peertube disagrees
only way i can see it happening if it got state subsidies
what about short form content?
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I tried the webinterface on mobile of the server loops.video . It actually feels really fast and elegant. I’m hoping the Androidapp improves that feeling.
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On the other hand, on a smaller platform more people have a chance to be seen.
I thought about how to convince people to use the Fediverse and people always reply “there’s so few users, nobody will see my content”. But that’s in fact not true, because it has few users, your stuff has a higher chance to be seen.
But I’m a temporarily embarassed
millionaireYouTube sensation!Oh that is a good parallel
The thing to understand is that YouTube can pay creators without taking money from viewers because it shows you ads, tracks you, and is backed by a huge corporation that can spend lots of money just to stay #1 in that space, and can deal with copyright claims.
There can be no free alternative without ads and tracking.
Even if someone rich enough paid for it with no expectation of profit, as soon as it got too popular, an armada of lawyers would descend upon them to shut it down.The only real alternative is following creators you like on their Patreon, but then you have to pay them for creating content.
The only real alternative is following creators you like on their Patreon, but then you have to pay them for creating content.
It’s even worse, I DO follow creators on Patreon, but they usually just use YouTube. The one time I was following one who didn’t (because it was sexual content), their hosting solution was crap.
without taking money from viewers
Youtube premium leads to add free for those that have it which is kinda like taking money.
Still tracking you tho.
My point was purely to point out to the previous poster that a “taking money” option exists and not to discuss whether it is a particularly good option.
Well, there is Peertube. But as mentioned scaling it would be really expensive. So propably a lot of money for Framasoft would help.
If you’re willing to pay, Nebula is a streaming service setup by creators, without any ads or data harvesting/selling. The revenue goes directly to the creators. Their offer is still small, but quite a few creators I followed on Youtube I now follow there.
As a viewer, I like Nebula. As a creator, I can’t just “get on nebula” in the sense that I could on youtube (not that my content would fit with most of what they have anyway).
While understanding the gist, Nebula LLC is based in america, so it wouldn’t match the buyFromEU idea.
Start a party or hijack the European Pirate Party and win a majority by promising to spend part of the broadcasting budgets on an European social video network.
Use social pressure by letting all teens pressure their parents, grandparents and neighbours to vote for you with the promise of making that network available to them while all other parties work on shutting them out.
The last decentralised alternative that was somewhat successful was LBRY, but the US government shut them down.
I’d love to see an alternative that uses IPFS, it seems like an ideal way to distribute videos.
I always wondered if folks could just take what plex does, only repackage it with a federated concept. Then the actual infrastructure and website can be signed off to trust or nonprofit or coop with poison pills to ward off the billionaires.
