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Give me a good FOSS alternative to Youtube (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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edit: Peertube seems to be having a limit to how much you can upload, say 5-50gbs, how do big creators with lots of videos do their work here?

edit: Peertube is freaking chaotic, it's like I need to read a book before I start using it. I want something which is intuitive and FOSS and Odysee though a lil complex is/was that.

edit: interestingly, no one has suggested anything but Peertube, I had though it too works on lbry protocol, but it doesn't. I don't need one, but does anyone have a platform which depends on lbry protocol?

I like FOSS and thus a few months ago I resolved to never post videos on youtube (no matter how low quality)

I though odysee was a good alternative, apparently not. It takes ages to upload videos and it isn't freaking working rn.

I just uploaded this video (for an hour) https://odysee.com/mx_linux_waydroid:1 and it won't even play!

I tried to register an account on TILvids, a platform which works on LBRY and I just wasn't able to publish videos because I had to ask some admin for a quota or some thing.

TILvids thing has been going on for a month now (as in I requested the admin 1 month ago and they haven't responded yet)

So, what is that one FOSS alternative to youtube which won't suck life out of you.

Also, is it possible to just move your content from odysee to some other platform. Because it has been frustrating to use Odysee but I have tolerated it because it isn't yt, but now even I am giving up on it.

I want to just upload Linux videos and not require someone’s approval like TILvids, what platform inside peertube should I use

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I love that everyone is just suggesting Peertube, the only one OP has specifically said they don't want to use πŸ˜‚

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But what about peertube?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've heard lots of good things about it in this thread about someone wanting an alternative to it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Amended title: give me a good alternative to YouTube and peertube.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only thing that comes to mind is PeerTube. I’ve never used it, but I’ve seen it suggested a few times in the privacy community.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I want to just upload Linux videos and not require someone's approval like TILvids, what platform inside peertube should I use

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I personally used dalek.zone, no video approval necessary. Though I probably needed to get my account approved, not sure.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

thank you! that's all I wanted!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

hey just curious, if I upload a video in there, will it remain forever? As in, I can't delete it because it's part of lbry network now? I have heard something like that about odysee.com

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can delete videos on Peertube. They're stored on the server the same way YouTube etc. do it. The difference is just that the Peertube servers federate with each other like Lemmy does.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

nice thank you!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I don't think there is a platform that is on the level of YouTube, be it FOSS or not. They are still too strong as of now.

[–] MrCamel999 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

PeerTube in general is the best alternative so far. TILvids is an example of a PeerTube instance, but PeerTube is federated just like Lemmy here, so you can find a different instance if you don't like TILvids, or even host your own if you want! I don't know the best instance for you off the top of my head though, I just use TILvids as well, which works fine for me as just a viewer.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I want to just upload Linux videos and not require someone's approval like TILvids, what platform inside peertube should I use.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

An alternative frontend for LBRY/Odysee. Inspired by Invidious and Libreddit. https://codeberg.org/librarian/librarian

The page has a list of working instances.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Do you want to host the videos on your own server? A quick Google search turned up https://datarhei.com/. I'm sure there are many, many other options.

Otherwise you need to host on someone else's server. Here's my advice:

  1. Forget FOSS. What software your host runs is not important. The only lock-in is video discovery, and FOSS doesn't really help.

  2. Someone is paying. Either you (e.g. Wistia), big tech + viewers (e.g. YouTube) or some poor volunteer/donor (PeerTube). You need to decide which is less problematic.

If you need a video "platform" where users organically discover your content... That's another question

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

IDK its playing on me. Meanwhile have you tried Peertube? https://joinpeertube.org/tr

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I want to just upload Linux videos and not require someone's approval like TILvids, what platform inside peertube should I use