Hi everyone, I’ve been following the de-google-ify internet campaign of framasoft for several years now and have replace a lot of GAFAM services doing so but the only service I’m truly struggling with replacing is youtube.
I could never find anything with enough interesting content and I always find myself going back to youtube.
What about you?
- did you stop using youtube?
- where do you go instead?
- do you just spend less time watching videos?
I prefer decentralized solutions but any FLOSS alternative is a good start.
What do you like watching on YouTube? Personally, I find short-form video incredibly irritating, most of the videos on YouTube would be more useful and accessible as a blog post (actually most of them would be better not existing), but YouTube is much more effective at monetizing content than blogs ever were so that’s where people have gone.
I watch a lot of stuff that I guess isn’t really favored by the algorithm and would probably do well elsewhere but are there because Youtube is just so all-encompassing like… category theory for programmers, video manual for my synth, some very specific DIY-stuff (like how to scrape oboe reeds). But I’ve replaced most of my time on Youtube with listening to podcasts and reading…
I watch a lot of different stuff: