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YouTube Alternatives at a Glance
- peter_d_sherman 6y agoRelated: "Why does Microsoft not have a video platform like YouTube?": https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Microsoft-not-have-a-video-platform-like-Youtube-while-it-has-alternatives-for-most-Google-products https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Microsoft-not-have-a-video-pl... Future To-Do: Get Microsoft to create/buy its own video sharing service...
- umeshunni 6y agoI remember a few YouTube competitors from Microsoft 10+ years ago - e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_Soapbox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_Soapbox
- modeless 6y agoThey had Mixer and gave up on it rather abruptly.
- AdmiralAsshat 6y agoWasn't that more of a Twitch alternative than YT?
- scott31 6y agoThey did a deal with Facebook which is planning to launch a Twitch competitor.
- kube-system 6y agoTikTok? :D
- Firebrand 6y agoNot if Oracle and Sequoia have anything to say about that.
- pmoriarty 6y agoWhile more competition is good, I'm ultimately not very excited about content hosting, discovery, and distribution being owned by any one entity or handful of entities. In the long run, humanity has to find some robust, egalitarian, decentralized models of communication or we're all going to be beholden to their owners who are going to have ever more control over what we say, think, and do.
- causality0 6y agoI hope one day we'll have post offices of the internet. Government-run, not for profit but at a balanced budget, with services provided at cost, and subject only to the communications laws of the countries in which they operate.
- type0 6y ago> post offices of the internet. Government-run I sure hope not, who would run it in US, NSA?
- causality0 6y agoHow about the US Postal Service?
- vbernat 6y agoThe content seems quite outdated (repost?). Notably, Dailymotion does not accept user generated content anymore. Only partners can upload videos.
- kennydude 6y agoIt looks like generic filler SEO content 1&1 are trying to do
- throw_m239339 6y agoIt is crazy, how the mighty has fallen. At some point Dailymotion was actually the only serious alternative to Youtube. What's the point of buying a business to make it useless like that?
- mankins 6y agoThere's also the Web Monetized site Cinnamon: https://www.cinnamon.video/ https://www.cinnamon.video/
- andrewclunn 6y agoMore like corporate approved alternatives list.
- em3rgent0rdr 6y agoWhat about PeerTube?
- dcjintel 6y agoMost people use Youtube because of the huge archive of footage, a really great search engine, and a good algorithm. Do any of these sites attempt to beat them in these areas? Can you even do that?
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- DizzyDoo 6y agoI know I watch YouTube because there's a handful of specific channels whose content I really enjoy, and those channels are based on YouTube primarily because their audience - or potential audience - is there. That sort of established, two-way relationship is weighty enough to be difficult to shift.
- jdechko 6y agoExactly. I don’t necessarily care about the YouTube pet se, but I do care about the specific content from the creators I follow. And the content creators go to where the users are. And the cycle repeats. And while some of the same types of content may be available on other platforms, the personalities are almost completely focused on YouTube.
- ehsankia 6y agoThat's mostly true, but even if every single one of the creators I followed were also on platform X, there's also all the instrumentation around Youtube, such as TV apps, Chromecast support, third party support from other sites, etc. The site itself has so many features that people take for granted until one of gone. Hell just removing a tiny portion of one feature (user submitted subtitles) had a huge uproar from the community. Most of these alternatives on the other hand don't have 80% of the features Youtube does.
- LockAndLol 6y agoI kind of was expecting DTube, peertube and LBRY on there, tbh. Centralized services are just in danger of becoming the new youtube.
- longtom 6y agoWhat about BitChute?
- bitwize 6y agoNeo-Nazi YouTube is not a viable alternative for average folks.
- bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y agoConsidering we've collectively redefined (literally) average folks worldwide as neo-nazis, I'd say it's a fair — indeed quite fitting — alternative.
- johnghanks 6y agotl;dr YouTube sucks in some regards but is in general better in every way than the alternatives.
- throw_m239339 6y agoI don't think Youtube would be able to survive on its own outside Google. Are they even making a profit?
- yoz-y 6y agoYes. https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/3/21121207/youtube-google-alphabet-earnings-revenue-first-time-reveal-q4-2019 https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/3/21121207/youtube-google-al... (Disclaimer: I work at YT)
- gundmc 6y agoThat link doesn't say anything about profitability, only revenue.
- B_ryJenkins 6y agolol, and im pretty sure YT separated from google would be operating at a profit defecate
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- ansible 6y agoTwo that didn't make the list are Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com https://curiositystream.com for documentaries, and Nebula: https://standard.tv/pages/nebula-creators https://standard.tv/pages/nebula-creators For a bunch of other content creators that may also be on YouTube. There's various promo links where you can sign up for both at a discount: https://curiositystream.com/legaleagle/ https://curiositystream.com/legaleagle/
- ehsankia 6y agoAren't those closer to Netflix, where you have to be a cherry picked creator to have your content on there?
- ansible 6y agoYes, it is somewhere between a paid streaming service, and YT. I wanted to mention Nebula because several of the channels I first watched on YT are on there as well.
- kauffj 6y agoLBRY is the best YouTube alternative because it is the only one that fundamentally changes social video in a way that YouTube cannot copy. LBRY uses a public blockchain to allow creators to retain complete control over their publishing identity. It also has a beautiful consumer app experience at https://lbry.tv https://lbry.tv, which was used by about 4M people last month (P2P apps at lbry.com/get). You can read more in our IEEE paper here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9126007 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9126007 Or dig into the specification and APIs at https://lbry.tech https://lbry.tech
- skinnyasianboi 6y agoI also don't get why LBRY is so underrated on hacker news. It is the best content platform especially in terms of free speech and monetization. Every update very few weeks makes the platform even better and more convenient.
- ravenstine 6y agoIs a blockchain really necessary? Why not simply use an RSA key pair?
- jsigwart 6y agoThe blockchain provides a searchable index of content.
- ravenstine 6y agoYou can have a searchable index of content without blockchain. The web has searchable content indexes without blockchains for almost my entire lifetime. What does a blockchain actually solve here? Without a blockchain, at a bare minimum, all you would need is for creators to post signed content to an index, and anyone can verify the content with the creator's public key. Whether a piece of published content has a hash that precedes the previous one seems irrelevant.
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- rhacker 6y agoInteresting turn of events I remember when 98% of the population was laughing at Google when they bought them for a 1.6 billion. Holy shit was that a great investment.
- danShumway 6y agoI'm not sure how this made it to the front page, it's not really providing any useful information. Platforms like Twitch aren't really equivalent to Youtube, it's a different platform with different strengths and weaknesses, it's not something most people would want to use as a primary video host. It's also an incredibly short list that doesn't mention any of the more interesting, uncommon alternative platforms that are popping up nowadays. You're building a list of video hosting platforms 'at a glance', and you can only come up with 5 of them? > Vimeo claims to be an exchange platform for creative minds, which is reflected on the website Sentences like this read like an AI scraped each site's marketing pages and automatically generated a list from the content. What's going on with this, is it just an SEO article designed to point people towards the company's blog, or is there some kind of actual value that I'm missing?
- 1f60c 6y agoIt also doesn't seem to have a byline which is... unusual.
- goldforever 6y agoPeerTube!