That’s a rhetorical question, in case there’s any doubt. I know the exact what and why of their bullshit.

  • serpineslair@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    I think they are clamping down and trying to force people to watch yt in Google’s desired way. They have managed to stop most Piped instances via ip banning and also requesting users to “sign in to confirm you are not a robot”. I wish their was a proper alternative at this point. It would be great if something like Peertube took off.

    • Gigasser@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Might be cool to start advocating for some YouTube creators to also post their stuff on federated video hosting/sharing instances. Peertube is pretty cool. I mean shit, if any of you are thinking of being creators, and you make a video, put it both on YouTube and some Peertube instance.

      Edit: replaced a word with “instance” and added word “instance”

      • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        There are maybe a dozen non nuts on Odyssey. They’re just drown out by the fascists.

        Problem is:

        Peertube doesn’t pay

        You have to pay for the backup/storage of your videos.

        PT will have massive scaling pains.

        Yt spends a lot of that advertising money hosting non profitable videos for free.

      • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        Unfortunately creators need to be paid and YouTube ad & subscription money is a big part of that for many of them.

        By posting to elsewhere that won’t pay them, they would be reducing their income

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      0·
      4 months ago

      I use SmartTube on my TV and NewPipe on my phone. Except for links from Lemmy.

      If this bullshit is/becomes a thing for every YouTube video, I’m gonna have to do a lot of annoying copying and pasting or just eschew pretty much all videos on Lemmy 🤬

      Agreed on Peertube btw.

      • I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        4 months ago

        I wonder could someone write an app that watches the clipboard for YouTube URLs and auto launches the desired app?

        • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          You can uninstall YouTube and set newpipe as default “YouTube” app, all links will be open in that

              • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                4 months ago

                Odysee and Rumble are the platforms that wackjobs (like flat earthers) have flocked to in the past year or so.

                Those platforms aren’t promoting that content per se, it’s just that such content isn’t moderated like on YouTube and Facebook. And before you say “but there’s tons of that stuff on YouTube and Facebook already!” it doesn’t compare.

                • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
                  01·
                  4 months ago

                  I believe that. Like Gab, right? The scum sinks to the bottom.

                  If I understand correctly, I think I side with the people saying use it anyway. Video hosting is hard, and YouTube is more enshittified every day.

  • notannpc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    4 months ago

    Well that might just completely kill YouTube on mobile for me. The only way to watch on my phone without their ads.

    • monobot@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      I am slowly switching back to podcasts, it is only question of time when yt quality goes bellow usability, they are dancing around that thin line like with search.

  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    4 months ago

    Everyone here is like “use this” “use that” which is great but the immediate solution is

    switch to desktop mode

    You’re welcome