Checked to confirm, having 22 Peertube instances integrated to Grayjay (platforms aggregator) so not necessarily one communicates with the other, and filtering the contents from the Home tab just by Peertube instances, and indeed most stuff is months old at best.

However, least for tech content creators, it seems to thrive. Also, if lack of contents is a problem but the person sees potential in the technology, I'd invite the given person to also help producing contents for there. Like the saying goes, if you want change, be the change.

And also, the more content a platform has, the more inviting it is to others. Expecting it to be as big as youtube but much quicker and organically is a first step to regret, I think.

Yeah and majority of them aren't as popular. Think Fedi.Directory has selection of various PeerTube channels which the popular ones like The Linux Experience, Veronica Explains more used PeerTube as a mirror for people who don't want to use YouTube and then there's some FOSS Project (think KDE?) that use it just to show off features related to their project.

Beside Tilvids' instance, there's barely much video on PeerTube I feel like I want to actually watch

I tried once. For some sites I couldn't even register, at the rest I couldn't upload anything.

Well, since Peertube won't get ads, I don't see that happening soon. YouTubers will have to get used to asking for donations and setting up donation accounts.

...or another solution is cryptocurrencies but that is not very reliable.

It won't become an alternative if we don't move. I think PeerTube can actually work regarding monetisation - having a decentralised Patreon alternative would help along, for example.

Vimeo is alright, but it's US-based. I don't trust far-right censorship to not creep up there.

Odysee is good design-wise, but it's full of hatred. Also, situated in the US.

Bandcamp, also situated in the US. No thanks.

And SmartTube on your Android TV.

Not OP but for me I'm fine giving them some money in exchange for me not having to watch any ads while using their services. Just not the amount they want to charge me in my home country. 5€ a month feels fair, 15 does not.

Every time I access the internet on a device that isn’t mine, I’m blown away with how bad it is.

Sometimes my friends will ask if I can take a look at their computers because it's not working as expected or something is definitely wrong. I am always blown away by all the ads and crap all over the screen. It's like going to a porn site. I always ask 'How the fuck do you do this?' At the very least, install an adblocker. Sometimes I'll just go ahead and install UBlock, but there's an issue with doing that. Ublock Origin has a little bit of a learning curve. You actually have to put in a little work before it really works optimally for you. I find that people are not willing to do the work.

Wait, are you a pastafarian or a satanist?

Yeah, YouTube will insert ads but never THAT close to the last one unless they play back-to-back.

I’m not sure. There have been times where I thought, this would be the perfect place for an ad break. And lo and behold… ad break. Sometimes they get cut off mid sentence and I think, either it’s automated, or maybe you’re right and they got a say but didn’t specify enough ad breaks so one was inserted semi randomly…

My exact setup.

Just had a look - $6 a month, based in NYC. Definitely better than giving YouTube money, for now at least. They say they have a 50/50 profit sharing model with creators - profit presumably is after salaries (including bonuses?) have been paid, so it's not clear exactly how much of your subscription does in fact go to the video creators. Still, a better option than YouTube, if only to support competition.

My understanding is their economic model has every creator being a part owner of the platform

I haven't had that experience at all and I've been here for years. Maybe you're lurking in the wrong subs.

Honestly just need to bring back Usenet newsgroup traffic

Hey bro. I appologize for the late reply. Apparently I lost track of time.

First, I am a mediocre musician on my best day. I've been playing stringed instruments for about 65 years, but it's more of a hobby that I get a lot of satisfaction out of. I did entertain the notion that maybe I could pick up one or two gigs doing background music for an indie game dev, which is why I was using YT. I do have some tracks on PeerTube, but as you are probably aware, the traffic flow of PeerTube is rather spartan.

And for Android TV, use SmartTube.

At least on Brave you don't have to use an account (which Mozilla hasn't figured out yet) to synchronize your bookmarks, extensions and settings. And mind you that you can disable all the controversial things.

I stopped paying for YouTube when they started cracking down on free users, and stopped using them pretty much entirely. It was hard though - even though I have Netflix, I always found it easier to find interesting and informative things to watch on YouTube than Netflix. I'd watch YouTube several times a day, whereas with Netflix I usually spend about 10 or 15 minutes scrolling through their god-awful UI before closing it and finding something else to do.

That's what I do too 😂

What is "Andi"?