AI Is KILLING YouTube (and you should be terrified...) - Invidious
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So, given AI is destroying YT, if you’re any sort of a creator at all, even if you just have some random posts from years ago that you uploaded with no intention of getting popular, you really should move your stuff to PeerTube, ideally on a self-hosted instance if you have the hardware to spare, while you still can, because things are only going to get worse for YT.

Even Odysee is a decent alternative if you want more traction, but PeerTube is more ideal as an alternative platform due to having the ability to self-host an instance there and have complete control of your content and presence down to owning the infrastructure you’re posting on.

  • MourningDove@lemmy.zip
    4·
    7 hours ago

    I’ve been telling people for years that if they don’t like YouTube to stop using it- and I get downvoted into oblivion.

    I’ll never understand internet culture.

    Entire threads dedicated to how shitty a thing is, and when someone says- “hey, not using it is an option” they get met with vitriol and abuse. .

    • JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 hours ago

      You’re not wrong, though if I didn’t like the people running the local library, where else do I go for book lending?

      Ideally, video creators would just host on their own website (remember those) and maybe let viewers pipe the video through a frontend of their choosing. That’s a big leap to ask of your audience though, and even bigger for a non technical creator.

      I’ve seen some of them using Patreon to share videos with paying fans, sometimes exclusively, but with YouTube having the larger slice of the audience pie, they continue to upload to the platform.

      When I think about why people might meet you with vitriol for proposing they stop using YouTube, it may be that they interpret that suggestion as you telling them not to watch the creators they enjoy. Bit of a logical fallacy there, but an appreciable one given YouTube’s monopoly on small scale video content.

      • DFX4509B@lemmy.wtfOPEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        At least with physical books, for example, you can just take them home to read and no one will randomly yank them away from you, unlike both YT and also DRM-ridden e-book stores like Kindle.

        Hell, if you straight-up buy physical books, they’re yours to do as you please with.

        Also…

        Ideally, video creators would just host on their own website (remember those) and maybe let viewers pipe the video through a frontend of their choosing.

        • That’s literally what PeerTube lets you do, well, OK, it doesn’t let you host your own website ala Geocities or its modern replacement, Neocities, but it lets you host your own instance and it also lets you use whatever front-end you want, at least in theory. It doesn’t go out of its way to shut down alt front-ends like YT does, in other words.