i’ve grown increasingly, increasingly tired of youtube lately. the exhausting shorts advertised everywhere, overwhelming thumbnails, sensory overload and just generally a really piss poor site. Is there anywhere someone like me can turn to?
Vimeo is not an alternative to Youtube. It’s a submitter-paid platform. If people had to pay money to upload their videos to youtube, it would never have become popular.
No its not anyone can upload to vimeo. You get extra perks if you pay. I dont pay them anything, and heres a video i uploaded like 10 years ago, still there. https://vimeo.com/7464283
https://help.vimeo.com/hc/en-us/articles/12425432518801-What-s-included-with-the-Free-plan
What’s included with the Free plan?
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4K, HDR, & Dolby Vision support
Playback speed controls
Limited video-making & editing tools, including Basic templates, add text and sticker animations and trimming tools
Unlimited screen and webcam recordings
GIF maker and embed GIFs in the email (Gmail only)
Create folders and subfolders
Basic viewer analytics
Native publishing across social channels
Embed videos anywhere
Create up to three (3) video showcases, one (1) channel, and one (1) group
The ability to download converted files
Access to stock photos, videos, and music in Create videos
A free plan on Vimeo limits you to a single seat (the owner). On a free plan, you may upload or create up to two (2) videos per month, allowing up to 25 videos in total. This cap is in place for the lifetime of the free account and does not reset or renew. After you reach 25 videos, you will need to upgrade your account to upload or create more videos. Learn more about video cap limits.A free plan on Vimeo stays free forever. As long as you are following our guidelines and logging in every once in a while, your account will remain intact.
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On mobile devices have a look on newpipe and libretube, you’ll find them over f-droid or as APK directly. It’s been months since I’ve watched ads. Don’t forget to donate, it’s very easy, even if it’s only one buck, they’re fighting for a good cause.
Would be nice. We have decentralised replacements for Twitter and Reddit now we just need one for YouTube that’s beyond the reach of the corporate assholes. Imagine being able to swear within the first 30 seconds of a video and not get buried where it will never be seen.
You just have to set up the sponsorblock in the configs, it comes disabled
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Nebula
Nebula is great, but it should be pointed out it is a paid service.
I don’t know how serious it is, but Peer Tube is aspiring to be what you’re looking for - a YouTube service that allows independent instances and federation. Here’s the wiki detail.
This is the Fediverse alternative.
I think that it’s going to be the hardest service to run on the Fediverse, as the bandwidth costs from streaming videos are the highest. I’d think that stuff like lemmy/kbin being an alternative to Reddit, or Mastodon to Twitter is going to be easier to do.
Obviously it depends on the scale but part of peertube’s viability relies on the fact that it’s peer to peer sharing the video with you, so it’s not just that host you download from, but any host that has a copy of that video, which overall gives the network a tradeoff between storage space and bandwidth
