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I'm delighted that this works now.
Of course companies like the proprietary-platform apps, in some ways. So it's great to see a tech company also embrace Web open standards as an option for users/customers.
i like odysee a lot as a platform, but it can't fully replace YT just yet for me, as a good deal of the channels i watch are still YT-only. i'd say my video-watching time is split maybe 80% yt, and 20% odysee at this point.
> I think Nebula.tv is promising, and a bunch of creators I like upload their videos on it. I do have a Nebula account but rarely end up using it, since most videos get uploaded to YouTube as well, and when I open Nebula, I find myself having already watched all the interesting videos on YouTube. I've just gotten in the habit of opening up Nebula first and only then switching to YouTube when there's nothing new there…
Sadly none of my 'creators' are on nebula; But one thing worth trying if you do want to avoid going to youtube -- just have some cronjobs running yt-dlp every few hours on each channel you're interested in on YouTube, served up with a little auto index httpd via Tailscale -- makes for a pretty nice experience. (Seems to be limited to 1080p, but I don't really care about the quality of those videos tbh).
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I've personally been watching YouTube less and less. The ads are insane. I would normally spend more time watching videos but it's become so disruptive I think most of us can agree that many videos are unnecessarily long (as it's incentivized by the creator for ad revenue), so there's far more fluff in it. With the rise of LLMs, etc for getting knowledge fast , I just can't see how this model is sustainable. I don't…
Don't everyone on HN use ublock origin? I haven't seen an ad in years.
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Yeah but operating a service like YouTube is such a money pit (given on recent HN threads I've read). It seems like they've been mostly able to work because of their huge ad network, targeting, etc.
Yeah, the important 3rd wheel of the video space: 1) Hosting space/cpu/bandwidth. Video is one of the most intense data jobs out there, behind I suppose maybe AI and Big Data (if anyone is still doing that). You need Terabytes of drive space, petabytes of traffic, all the CDNs, processors capable of encoding inefficient video uploads to efficient video downloads. 2) Network effect. People need to actually want to com…
All the initial groundwork is done.
All they need is a platform for the youtube class content provider. They already have ad deals too.
They could, if they found some model that works, snap up loads of talent.... and that talent could even stay on youtube too.
As long as they keep content in its own category...
For me the degoogling sticking point is that I have a custom domain (registered through Google domains) that i use for both for my email addresses and my small personal home page. It would be nice to find a host that offers both hosting and email through a custom domain too.
The only thing irreplaceable for me is Youtube. Even if it's gotten worse as a platform over time, I still consume it more than any other type of video media and there are no good alternatives for much of the content that I enjoy watching.
Standard Notes was pretty decent for acessing notes between multiple devices when I used it. Now that I am back on Android, I use Syncthing for both pictures and notes, without a cloud intermediary.
Aegis instead of Google Authenticator. I found it the most straightforward, and it has backups/transfers not tied to any account.
QKSMS instead of Google Messages. It doesn't support RCS and reactions come across as texts, but no issues otherwise.
Fossify apps for other basic functionality.
Something to keep in mind with custom ROMs and OSes is that only some have VoLTE support. Which, with 3G shutdown, is a must in the US, unless you are in a great 2G coverage zone.
For me the degoogling sticking point is that I have a custom domain (registered through Google domains) that i use for both for my email addresses and my small personal home page. It would be nice to find a host that offers both hosting and email through a custom domain too.