What are the best fediverse alternatives to youtube? and what makes them so good, what are the rules? are they all open source?

ive been wanting to start gaming videos but youtube is youtube you know.

  • mvirts@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Peertube for sure. Seems to work great whenever I try it, but I’m not a political extremist or European so most of the instances I’ve come across aren’t interesting to me. I would recommend starting your own instance, but also YouTube is YouTube because they actually pay creators if that’s something you’re looking for.

    Check out sepiasearch

  • Prefix@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’m really curious to see if any of these options can pan out long-term. It’s extremely expensive to host video, and it seems like it could be a real challenge for federated video hosting to take off at scale. I’m hopeful!

    • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Peertube has been around for a while, but indeed many instances aren’t open for registration and many disappeared at a point.

      In theory the bittorent behind it is well scalable, not sure how it works practically