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.

  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    Is there anything we could try to get alternatives to YouTube?

    Yes, you can pay for it.

    If you want “free” then you’re going to be stuck with the same ads, tracking and enshitification. If you don’t want any of that, you are going to have to crack open your wallet and pay for the privilege. As an example (not an EU one), there’s Nebula which is ad free, owned and operated by creators, free of AI slop and mostly free of the usual dross the youtube algorithm pushes. At the same time, it’s scope is pretty limited (predominantly science and edu-tainment type content). And there is little guarantee that they will survive and/or grow. I personally have a subscription and keep hoping they succeed, but I also don’t expect them to reach anything like the scope of YouTube.

    And that sort of thing brings with it another problem: a lack of democratization. One of the things YouTube does is allow nearly anyone to put something up. While the algorithm is hardly kind to new or niche creators, it’s still entirely possible for some random person to start posting cat videos as dramas in three acts, and maybe that takes off. With the siloed services, that’s never going to happen. Maybe they won’t insist on some sort of editorial input, but they are also going to be far more selective in what they platform. So, there is a trade-off to be had.

    There is also the BBC model, with a publicly funded service. You’re still paying for it, but it’s not directly controlled by a corporation with it’s shareholders to serve. Though, there might still be the question of opening up the platform for more “niche” creators.