I use ad blocker and brave on phone to access so it’s less cancerous but occasionally I see it unfiltered and good God is it awful.
I love the idea of peertube but it’s very awkward to use and people freak out about the P2P streaming. But a fediverse video site seems ideal: smaller instances so no one instance needs to be able to host extreme amounts of data… although there’s always risk that one instance becomes a monopoly and defederates from everything, and we’ll have the same issue again (actually I fully expect something like this to happen on fediverse in general).
Dailymotion is one option I guess? But I don’t see people talk about it much? Am I missing something?
There’s sleebi for ASMR but it’s a teeny tiny thing. Still paid for it tho.
None of course matter if there aren’t content creators actually making content. On the other hand, on a smaller platform more people have a chance to be seen.
The thing to understand is that YouTube can pay creators without taking money from viewers because it shows you ads, tracks you, and is backed by a huge corporation that can spend lots of money just to stay #1 in that space, and can deal with copyright claims.
There can be no free alternative without ads and tracking.
Even if someone rich enough paid for it with no expectation of profit, as soon as it got too popular, an armada of lawyers would descend upon them to shut it down.
The only real alternative is following creators you like on their Patreon, but then you have to pay them for creating content.
It’s even worse, I DO follow creators on Patreon, but they usually just use YouTube. The one time I was following one who didn’t (because it was sexual content), their hosting solution was crap.
Youtube premium leads to add free for those that have it which is kinda like taking money.
Still tracking you tho.
My point was purely to point out to the previous poster that a “taking money” option exists and not to discuss whether it is a particularly good option.