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[โ€“] MTK@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Calling Peertube a Youtube alternative is just wrong. It is an alternative in theory but it probably doesn't even have a milionth of the content that Youtube has.

[โ€“] buyeuropean@lemmy.ca 20 points 11 months ago (4 children)

That's the problem with "the winner takes it all" on the Internet. Which European alternative would you suggest instead?

[โ€“] wasabi@feddit.org 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There is no real YouTube alternative, unfortunately. The content makes a video platform great. No alternative video platform is anywhere close to YouTube in content diversity.

It's unfortunately a very different situation to most other things. For example you can "simply" convince your circle of friends to use Threema. Try convincing your favorite Youtubers to post on any alternative platform and see how far you get.

[โ€“] SeboBear@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago

I understand - my hope here would be we see โ€žrealโ€œ content that is not clickbait optimized as there is no incentive on that

[โ€“] MTK@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not saying PeerTube is bad, but if I was a regular person that wanted an alternative to YouTube, going to PeerTube would be an annoying experience that will probably turn me off from it. You have to let people come with the appropriate expectations.

[โ€“] SeboBear@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

YouTube also didnโ€™t have that variety and amount of videos when it started \o/

[โ€“] MTK@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

So? Again, peertube is great and I'm hoping it grows, but sending people ther as a YT alternative right now is just misleading, odyssey is much closer and even then I wouldn't call it a real alternative yet.

[โ€“] toaster@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 months ago

Everybody should consider donating even โ‚ฌ1 to PeerTube and/or Framasoft if they can.

[โ€“] VerPoilu@sopuli.xyz 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] buyeuropean@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago
[โ€“] Hippcelt@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dailymotion.com is French ...I'd suggest more than recommend but it's still better than all these peer tube type sites.

[โ€“] buyeuropean@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the suggestion! Added to the database.

[โ€“] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 11 months ago

A potential alternative then. Itโ€™s up to us to foster that potential. If we want to have an alternative to YouTube, weโ€™ll actually have to actively do something to change that.