I thought odysee is a better alternative for youtube and offers much more privacy. But it’s not. So disappointed.

Feeling hard to quit youtube because of other platforms doesn’t have much better or quality contents expecially no instance of peertube is truly usable. 🤥

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    Grayjay is pretty good, but isn’t exactly an alternative to YouTube since it just pulls from YouTube and strips the junk.

    Grayjay is to videos what Lemmy is to news, an aggregator, not a generator.

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      Thanks for clarifying, I misunderstood the question.

      The content on YouTube is golden and likely cannot be replaced, created elsewhere.

      Hence, stripping the junk is what makes it palatable for me.

      Cheers

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        Absolutely. The content mountain YouTube is sitting on is their most valuable asset. In my view, Nebula is doing a fine job of beginning any potential transition away from the black hole of YouTube.

        I think eventually the way to cripple YouTube would be for creators to, after years I imagine, transition to Nebula or similar, and then remove the videos from YouTube. Leave one up directing people to the new hosting site, but ultimately I do feel the old videos need to be pulled from YouTube, not just new content.

        One thing’s for certain though, all the garbage YouTube tries to push alongside the videos are overbearing and only serve to drive engagement. Nothing they do is to benefit the viewers, let alone the creators.

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      Except if people used grayjay en masse, they have the power to advertise a brand new platform

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        I suppose you’re right but I’m not sure how effective that would be since the they’d have to convince the creators off however many platforms their pulling from and direct them either to Grayjay (which as far as I know doesn’t have hosting infrastructure) or to some other service like Peertube I suppose.

        I think that transition would be difficult.