Nothing, no matter how bad, evil, terrible, treasonous, or ihumane, will destroy youtube. Except if they fail to honor a C&D from Disney.

I moved to NewPipe - no ads, and you can import your yt playlists and subscriptions so you don't have to start from scratch. Plus it plays in the background and if the phone screen is off

It might be crazy to think this... but imagine in a few years all >videos and posts and articles on various sites documenting the >genocide were fully purged. Leaving only people's frail memory of >events.

When you realize that this is the way a majority of people (at least in america) live by default, its really not that crazy. I work a blue collar job and I promise you no one out here gives a shit about any of this. If given the option, they would probably willingly and purposefully "push delete" on this entire topic because they are sick of hearing about "the bullshit". Also why data archival is of utmost importance.*

There's a vast amount on TikTok I imagine will be scrubbed after the sale finalizes

The internet never forgets, but only for those things the internet wants to remember.

Forreal though, the internet isn't so centralized that records could be purged like this. Made less easily publicly accessible? Sure. But I doubt rumble or bitleaks or the thousand other sites that popped up and mirrored LiveLeaks after it shut down are going to all cooperate with that idea.

I curse myself for not downloading them... but there was so so so so so so so so goddamn much...

It isn't even like that, Alphabet is humoring Trump and the global far right because it's more profitable, just like being "woke" was more profitable for them in the past.

With deep faking and AI anyone can make pedo videos with anyone in them.

The blackmail and blood money runs too deep.

Peer tube?

Not an exact alternative, but a lot of Youtube creators are on Nebula. It does require a subscription, but every creator is part owner of the service so your money goes directly to them.

That work at such a scale, with "popular" content creator being able to actually share their content, for free? No, not really. There are small scale initiatives, but you likely won't find much of the mainstream people on them. And, depending on what you use, you won't find much at all, because searching for content is a mess unless you are directly pointed to it from somewhere else.

There is a big issue with making up an alternative to youtube, at anything approaching the scale of youtube: it represents a lot of content, streamed from servers under strict time constraints, to many dozen/hundreds/thousands of people. With a centralized infrastructure that requires a lot of servers, spread over many places and many different networks. And these cost money. Using peer to peer at such a scale isn't that great either, although with more popularity it could improve.

Existing large providers such as youtube can handle this because they have such a vast CDN available, which allows sending one copy of a video into a region once, then spreading it across multiple diffusers, who then have a reasonable load on them.

Nebula is the only thing remotely comparable.

I'm loving it. But its not a "search what you want and you'll find it" like YouTube is. You can't search for a video to DIY your bathroom tile.

That alternative simply doesn't exist.

If you treat it like podcasts i.e. follow creators you like (just about all of them are also YouTubers) theres some excellent content there. And the creators are all stakeholders so no daddy capitalist screwing with algorithms.

PeerTube is the open source federated one. But discovery is next to impossible on it.

That was my first thought. Some variation of https://peertube.tv/

Anything that allows distributed hosting without any central accountability will inevitably have right-wing content uploaded - we have this problem in the fediverse as well. I think the best solution is to create an instance within these platforms that can stick within a certain niche to build trustworthyness (ie: an instance solely dedicated to news footage/documentaries).

I moved to NewPipe - no ads, and you can import your yt playlists and subscriptions so you don’t have to start from scratch. Plus it plays in the background and if the phone screen is off

As others have said, Nebula is pretty great. Much more limited in content, since creators are invite-only, and they curate for high quality creators. But it's growing quite quickly and has a wide variety of content from leftist cultural video essays, to music analysis, to urbanism, film criticism, science, original films, game shows, and more.

There are a couple of centrist creators on there that I personally avoid, but most creators are centre-left to leftist, and I don't think there's anyone I would explicitly describe as right-wing.

It's subscription only, but extremely affordable at $36/year or $6/month if you sign up through a creator's invite code, and I think they promised grandfathered pricing if they raise the price in the future. You can see their library without an account at https://nebula.tv/explore/videos. Or ask any more questions you might have at !nebula@lemmy.world.

They actively encourage it in fact.

so what does it do?

I'm not sure my pixel has that good of protection against spam

Buy a refurbished Pixel and slap GrapheneOS on it

Android in general is on its way out because google decided to remove sideloading programs that don't have their approval.

I just want to say, I share your specific species of frustration here and understand it well. Ughhh.

It's also possible, not having seen the videos in question, that they simply did violate YouTube's rules regarding graphic content. YouTube has had a terrible record of banning important content despite its societal value because of rigid adherence to ill-thought-out content policies. AI takes that problem and turns it up to 11.

Explosions of what exactly?

you can do that with adblock, i have been using ublock origin for a decade+now.

video essays, news, comedy and podcasts related to the above

I don't use the official site because I care about what data I put into the world, but I have about 150 subscriptions tailored over the last 15-ish years. Every morning I have 2-4 hours of new content on my subscriptions tab. Don't even interact with the ragebait algorithm

I mainly just use it to watch content of few YouTubers that play timberborn and oxygen not included(Echoridgegaming) and then some vtuber stuff and daily dose of internet. Using ublock and sponsor block. Looked a bit into peertube but think I had harder time finding stuff but that was few years back so stuff might have changed. Are there any good alternatives? Sadly YouTube is kinda the go to place for content and streaming.

I follow people talk about life, improving themselves, learning things.

You cant go by the most watched or recommended content, that stuff is pure garbage.

I wonder this all the fucking time.

YouTube has been a huge contributor to the lack of useful written knowledge online.

Which would be cool if any of googles search functionality worked anywhere and video wasn't a god awful fucking medium for learning everything.

Pause. Try a thing. Get behind. Pause. Rewind.. play. Pause. Play. Pause.

Even typing this out pisses me the fuck off.

honestly i hate podcasts and most peoples personalities are too irritating for me to stick with one source of news, philosophy, educational content etc for more than a week before I have to shut their annoying faces up. YouTube does make it really easy for me to be exposed to new people to hear from and new topics for me to dive into better than reddit or lemmy or other boards which hyperfocuses usually on specific subjects

The Linux experiment (news), Technology connections (deep dive tech), real civil engineer (video games), Göran Winblad (running), House of hypertrophy (bodybuilding science), Just have a think (climate news) and the occasional garbage.

I mostly listen to YouTube thanks to revanced, it's pretty good for chores.

I had trouble getting it going but once I got SmartTubeNext up and running on my android tv I began watching "YouTube" more than anything. It's almost got anything you want on it except new movies and TV shows. I watch news, gaming stuff, put music on in the background, comedy. It's got it all. I highly recommend SmartTubeNext as it skips all ads and even cuts out the sponsored segments of videos. A truly wonderful way to get YouTube content without having to sit through ads.

Video essays, Deltarune, Minecraft and Movie discussions and theories. And music to drown out my surroundings while I read a book because my mother watches TV with sensationalised drama all the time and my house is not big enough to escape from it

some niche videos, videos of shows i never watched but have interest in, clips are satisfactory enough.

It’s pretty easy now with the import feature!