All of this led to me ditching all of those (except YouTube, this is without a real alternative due to the content exclusively hosted there) and starting to self-host my stuff and joining the Fediverse.

[–] festemmie@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

you can use invidious or piped on PC and newpipe on a phone. just be careful cause i heard google removed newpipe from the playstore and someone put something malicious with the same name, but im not sure how that situation is going

[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago

You can still get NewPipe on F-Droid.

[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 7 points 1 year ago

I just disabled play store and sideload everything anyways.

[–] BigBootyBoy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How's newpipe compared to youtube revanced?

[–] lemann@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

As far as I'm aware: No login capability, does not require Play Services, supports a few other sites like SoundCloud.

Both don't show YT ads.

For NewPipe there's a fork that includes SponsorBlock and Return YouTube Dislike (both of which are in Revanced IIRC?)

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

There's also dentex YouTube downloader. (android).

[–] jlou@mastodon.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

To have some sort of viable fediverse alternative to YouTube, the developers of it would have to abandon some of the free software principles that current fediverse platforms uphold. There needs to be a way to monetize to attract creators and get people to host the servers

[–] miniu@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Free in software should stand for freedom, not money. We need better ways for financing such software projects and creators making content on them.

[–] jlou@mastodon.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah free as in freedom not as in price.

The closest anyone's come to a mechanism that would allow efficient financing of public goods like free software is quadratic funding. Unfortunately, there are unsolved issues with collusion and identity verification

[–] chocobo13z@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

If it were possible, I'd like to continually donate a given sum of money to an account that split the proceeds between the content creators and the people hosting. Granted, while I'm unemployed, the best I can do currently would be to donate hosting directly