Imagine buying premium to watch videos riddled with ads and sponsors in the video itself.
This format just isn't making any sense for me, they would've implemented something as sponsorblock years ago
this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2024
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Honestly, huge shout out to the wave of enshittification crashing through Google and reddit and forcing me off their platforms. Decade-long debilitating addiction solved.
Indeed. They're solving our issues for us! Go enshittification!
Peertube is planning on releasing an official app this year. Just thought I'd throw that out there.
Where did you get that from? I haven't found a relevant blog post.
They published a 2024 roadmap at the end of last year. I saw it when I was looking into donating to Framasoft.
Thanks.
They can try, but it is unlikley to work for long. So my general reaction is:
Fuck them. I'd rather donate quadruple the money for premium to my favourite creators directly than give a single penny to this parasitic mega corporation.
The issue is not only the ads, it's the stupid shit it throws you to keep you hooked, it's the stupid shorts that literally no one asked for, it's every stupid little thing that fights for your attention. Basically the app doesn't work for you, it works against you. That's not the case with third party apps, they have you, the user, in mind, not their profits.
Some of the youtube channels I watch also have channels on Peertube instances or on Odysee. Both options allow me to follow using RSS. I prefer my views to go to these platforms, so hopefully more content creators see these as viable hosts for their videos.
Peertube is also federated, so you can follow channels from your Mastodon account (and I think Lemmy too). You could also spin up your own instance if you like too.
I assume you help and financially support your instance of choice to help them with server costs? Video platforms are much more expensive to host than text platforms like mastodon or lemmy.
I haven't yet, although I may do in future. If they were hosting my own videos I would certainly be giving them a cut of sponsor revenue though.
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