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I think only odysee and peertube are open source direct alternative to youtube right? I was thinking in using Grayjay to watch nebula. I was thinking about it and it really sucks peertube and odysse aren't taken seriously. Youtube might be free but they sell your data and annoy you with a lot of ads. Nebula at least pay their creators better. So its really a ouroboros situation :/ hope one day peertube can grow and be a direct rival to youtube. But it really need investment.
Imo, one form of investment anyone can do is adoption. No use being the best option available if no one uses it. And Peertube channels are treated as communities on Lemmy/PieFed, have native RSS, and Grayjay and the *Pipe apps have integrations for it, so plenty of ways to follow. Then as adoption grows, so does relevance, and the more relevance there is, the higher is the chance is for people with the perfect alignment of interest, skills and time to improve the engine to appear.
Direct financial investment also helps, though that grows expensive fast, so worth being careful not to overspend in supporting. And as the local saying goes, if something is free, you are the product, which helps being ever more suspicious of how platforms like Youtube stay afloat indeed. So the better option, for those willing to support with money, is also to go slow and steady.
On a last note, Odysee's open source? Never heard of that.
You mean paying for Nebula? And yes, Odysee is open source.
Paying for whatever you find worthwhile, but in the scope of the original question, for services that pose as alternatives of Youtube.
Also interesting, wasn't aware of Odysee being open source. Living and learning!