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What are all the platforms people can use? I know there's one called LBRY.

oriesdan 6y ago
Peertube comes to mind for discoverability. For ensuring content creators revenue, the best way would probably be to host their own website and put videos behind paywall or accept donations, as they see fit.
- sbankowi 6y ago
  Seems like a perfect area for patreon to expand into. Support a user/artist on patreon, get access to their vids also hosted on patreon.
  - oriesdan 6y ago
    Indeed. Or even make sure to integrate Patreon (or other donation applications) to any privacy-friendly video application. I have a Twitch account just to have a paid subscription for the Critical Role channel, despite the fact that I never open Twitch and download their videos from Youtube using youtube-dl. It kind of feels ridiculous (especially knowing Twitch will put me in metrics of "their users").
  - BlueTemplar 6y ago
    Patreon is going to face the same issue then.
coldpie 6y ago
I'm not aware of any, and any such platform that is comparably featured would be susceptible to the same problem. This isn't a platform problem, it's a law problem.
tpoacher 6y ago
There's a few that are used, but Google's shrewd marketing combined with natural selection have done a very good job marking those as the "terrorists and crackpots" youtubes. And like all self-fulfilling prophecies, those claims are now largely true.
peterwwillis 6y ago
Do you have Docker? Then you can use an open source web UI rather than run the command-line tool. cat > youtube-dl-webui.Dockerfile <<EOF FROM d0u9/youtube-dl-webui RUN pip3 install --upgrade youtube_dl EOF cat > conf.json <<EOCONF { "general": {"download_dir": "/tmp/ytdui/download","db_path": "/tmp/ytdui/webui.db","log_size": 10}, "server": {"host": "0.0.0.0","port": 5000} } EOCONF docker build \ -f youtube-dl-webui.Dockerfile \ -t youtube-dl-webui:latest \ . mkdir ytdui && chmod 777 ytdui docker run \ --rm -it \ --name youtube_dl_webui \ -p 5000:5000 \ -e FLASK_DEBUG=1 \ -e CONF_FILE=/conf.json \ -v `pwd`/conf.json:/conf.json \ -v `pwd`/ytdui:/tmp/ytdui \ youtube-dl-webui:latest firefox http://localhost:5000/ That's the simplest one to get running I think (https://github.com/d0u9/youtube-dl-webui https://github.com/d0u9/youtube-dl-webui). Another is in PHP (https://github.com/timendum/Youtube-dl-WebUI https://github.com/timendum/Youtube-dl-WebUI).

Peertube comes to mind for discoverability. For ensuring content creators revenue, the best way would probably be to host their own website and put videos behind paywall or accept donations, as they see fit.

sbankowi 6y ago
Seems like a perfect area for patreon to expand into. Support a user/artist on patreon, get access to their vids also hosted on patreon.
- oriesdan 6y ago
  Indeed. Or even make sure to integrate Patreon (or other donation applications) to any privacy-friendly video application. I have a Twitch account just to have a paid subscription for the Critical Role channel, despite the fact that I never open Twitch and download their videos from Youtube using youtube-dl. It kind of feels ridiculous (especially knowing Twitch will put me in metrics of "their users").
- BlueTemplar 6y ago
  Patreon is going to face the same issue then.

coldpie 6y ago

I'm not aware of any, and any such platform that is comparably featured would be susceptible to the same problem. This isn't a platform problem, it's a law problem.

tpoacher 6y ago

There's a few that are used, but Google's shrewd marketing combined with natural selection have done a very good job marking those as the "terrorists and crackpots" youtubes. And like all self-fulfilling prophecies, those claims are now largely true.

peterwwillis 6y ago

Do you have Docker? Then you can use an open source web UI rather than run the command-line tool. cat > youtube-dl-webui.Dockerfile <<EOF FROM d0u9/youtube-dl-webui RUN pip3 install --upgrade youtube_dl EOF cat > conf.json <<EOCONF { "general": {"download_dir": "/tmp/ytdui/download","db_path": "/tmp/ytdui/webui.db","log_size": 10}, "server": {"host": "0.0.0.0","port": 5000} } EOCONF docker build \ -f youtube-dl-webui.Dockerfile \ -t youtube-dl-webui:latest \ . mkdir ytdui && chmod 777 ytdui docker run \ --rm -it \ --name youtube_dl_webui \ -p 5000:5000 \ -e FLASK_DEBUG=1 \ -e CONF_FILE=/conf.json \ -v `pwd`/conf.json:/conf.json \ -v `pwd`/ytdui:/tmp/ytdui \ youtube-dl-webui:latest firefox http://localhost:5000/ That's the simplest one to get running I think (https://github.com/d0u9/youtube-dl-webui https://github.com/d0u9/youtube-dl-webui). Another is in PHP (https://github.com/timendum/Youtube-dl-WebUI https://github.com/timendum/Youtube-dl-WebUI).