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.
If you’re willing to pay, Nebula is a streaming service setup by creators, without any ads or data harvesting/selling. The revenue goes directly to the creators. Their offer is still small, but quite a few creators I followed on Youtube I now follow there.
While understanding the gist, Nebula LLC is based in america, so it wouldn’t match the buyFromEU idea.
As a viewer, I like Nebula. As a creator, I can’t just “get on nebula” in the sense that I could on youtube (not that my content would fit with most of what they have anyway).