I watch YouTube when I eat etc. I pretty much solely watch gameplays. Is there any alternative? Or an opensource way to view YouTube? I don’t want to use Twitch because Amazon and I grew out of enjoying streamers in my late teens and it’s been a while since.
Edit: I don’t ever use it on mobile. Desktop via Firefox only.
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For desktop: Piped or Invidious instances, like piped.kavin.rocks
If you want to completely get rid of YouTube, then PeerTube or Odysee is nice.
NewPipe. Newpipe is feature rich and does not require an account. It holds all subscriptiouns localy and does not use the API. Customizable and had tons of features.
Libretube is better as for me
Also a grat option! To each his own.
If you want a way to view YouTube with no ads, no trackers and with dislikes, Vanced is the way to go. As far as I know their github is still active.
Rumble is a major one, but they’re more well-known for housing creators that have been banned from mainstream platforms, like Andrew Tate, Sneako, Donald Trump, etc.
Since we’re on Lemmy, which uses ActivityPub, I’d first recommend using PeerTube since it’s also a fediverse ActivityPub platform. But it’s pretty small right now.
Alternatively, Odysee has an established creator base and it’s easy for YouTubers to sync video uploads, so it has a real chance at becoming mainstream if we can push adoption outside of the tech-sphere.
In terms of just YouTube privacy-respecting frontends, with your browser I recommend using Piped or Invidious.
For more instances for privacy-respecting front-ends, this link is a good resource. Furthermore, you could consider installing the LibRedirect extension to automatically redirect you to privacy-respecting frontends.
On Android, I strongly recommend downloading LibreTube or NewPipe from the F-Droid store. LibreTube is actually really pretty, so I prefer it to ReVanced on that basis as it doesn’t require any level of login to manage a subscription list I think. Newpipe is already very well established and I use it personally, very good app.
Happy to answer any questions, but I’m not an engineer, I’m just a guy :p
Peertube is simply not good however. I encourage people to try it but it’s just not even remotely close to YouTube content.
For now I think Newpipe is a much, much better choice.
I think Lemmy is good enough to replace Reddit though, which is why I’m here so much. :)
I agree that it’s not fully “there” yet, but it won’t get “there” without users engaging with the videos. I try to use PeerTube for any YouTube creator I enjoy that uploads there. For example, Linux Experiment has started uploading there so I’ll be tuning in weekly to see his news updates.
Let’s still support upcoming platforms where we can :)
in what way is watching YouTube on an open source web browser not open enough?
Because YouTube videos keep getting deleted I download all my favorites and host on my Jellyfin server.
Same! So much better this way. I wrote my own program so it just automatically downloads new videos from channels I’ve told it I’m interested in, and then it puts it in the appropriate Jellyfin folder. Way more reliable this way, I don’t miss videos. And I don’t care if my internet shits the bed, it can take however long it wants to take to download and once it’s there I can even watch it even with no internet. I even implemented sponsorblock in it so Jellyfin automatically skips sponsored segments.
Take a look at Odysee. I even have a browser extention that redirects me from youtube to the video on Odysee if it is avilable their.
Looks very clean. But the issue to me and with a lot of new social media sites is the lack of population and thus the lack of content. I’ll try to stick to Lemmy and give it a chance but yeah it is a huge barrier of entry for new competitors.
Just use the addon so when there is a video on YouTube also available on Odysee it will automatically switch to Odysee.
The platform makes it very easy for creators to simply duplicate their YouTube channel.
And lastly, how are we ever going to get an alternative to YouTube if people refuse to use the alternative.
undefined> the lack of content.
I have the same issue. That is why i still use youtube for example but the extention allows me to slowly migrate to odysee. If the creator also uploads their videos to Odysee without me knowing the extention will make me aware of it by redirecting me to the Odysee variant of the video instead of youtube.
What’s the extension?
I’m not the person you asked, but I did find this firefox add-on. I just installed it, but haven’t really used it yet.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/watch-on-odysee/
It is called “Watch on odysee”
I personally self host my own Viewtube using docker and it works really well.
That looks amazing, thanks for bringing it to my attention.
