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[–] [email protected] 138 points 1 month ago (9 children)

So, sundar pinchai can be added to the list of CEOs that suck?

Because a lot of the time, it's weird that when the company does nasty shit, nobody names him as the head asshole in charge the way that other companies and ceos get handled.

The dude has been in the driver's seat for pretty much every major deterioration of Google/alphabet for years.

[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 month ago

He donated a million to Trump’s “inauguration” and sat in the VIP section, he was already a CEO that sucks.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As reported from a substack writer… 🤮

Substack platforms and monetizes Nazis.

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

Oh sorry, didn't know about that

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Mind providing a bit more context to this so I can look it up ? I’ll boycott substick if need be.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (7 children)

What international alternatives exist for YouTube? And I understand RedNote as an alternative for TikTok, but YouTube fills a little bit of a different niche.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

No one wants to talk about PeerTube?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't think it's possible for PeerTube to scale to a size where it would be capable of competing with Youtube.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

PeerTube is just software. It's a decentralized network. It doesn't have to scale to that size. You can have a million servers handling the storage and streaming in a more efficient method and democratize the bandwidth.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Because the user experience is horrible for non-creators.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

User experience can be improved pretty easily.

The important parts are already there.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

/c/[email protected]

There's a couple Lemmy communies out there where we showcase different channels.

https://lemmy.world/c/peertube

Check out top for a decent selection. It's a somewhat new community but we are growing fast. It's federated and has some hidden gems from people. Has a very early YouTube feel.

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

The closest, at least outside of China, would be Dailymotion.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Allas, if you want to stay away from YouTube, you'll also want to stay away from Dailymotion. This platform is owned by Vincent Bolloré who is also the owner of the "Groupe Canal" (which includes "CNews", the french equivalent to Fox News) and a number of different far-right media. Moving to Dailymotion is not exacly what I would call a smart one.

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[–] [email protected] 160 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (15 children)

Stop using youtube.

EDIT: A lot of people real fuckin triggered by this and looking for any excuse to keep using. Fucking addicts.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

not just stop, rip every half decent video from there and save it somewhere else. Losing everything in youtube is library of alexandria level loss.

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[–] [email protected] 130 points 1 month ago (22 children)

What else has such a catalog? Going to be hard to persuade creators to host their own content with ads and subscriptions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (23 children)

Not just catalog for viewing. What other platform can I use as cloud storage for video files for free? I have hundreds of hours of stuff uploaded there.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago

Catalog of what?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's not an easy answer, but the best way I've found so far is to use GrayJay.

If I find that one of the content creators I follow on YouTube happen to post their content on any other platform, I switch my subscription to that platform.

Besides YouTube they support Nebula, Twitch, Odysee, PeerTube, Dailymotion, Bitchute, Kick, BiliBili, Rumble, Patreon, and more.

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 month ago (5 children)

https://nebula.tv/

Lots of popular Youtubers are already there, and they strip the sponsor segments out of their content too.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The popular YouTubers are trash tho

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (30 children)

Most of them are literally Nazis. Anytime I go to youtube and finish a video all the suggested videos to watch after are obscene "anti-woke" trash.

The youtube to right-wing pipeline is real.

EDIT:

Here's after me watching an old Lightning Bolt music video. Six videos are related to Lightning Bolt, being live videos or music videos, but a solid four videos are all weird right-wing Nazi pipeline shit. One defending Trump and saying he has a plan, one lamenting the pushback against Tesla, one shitting on the new Snow White for being "woke," and one literally with the giant title "fuck your pronouns." Plus one old cartoon and an episode of Surrounded with one doctor vs. twenty anti-vax (I am not convinced this Surrounded show actually does anything helpful for any discourse.) I have watch history disabled so none of this comes from my watch history, this is the default that youtube gives to people.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sadly I couldn't get it to stream reliably though it's been a few months since I unsubscribed.

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