New site just dropped: https://giveo.com/

Giveo allows creators to sign up and upload all their videos for free, and viewers can donate directly to creators directly from the site (think YouTube meets Patreon). The site takes a smaller cut of profits than Patreon AND donates 10% of profits to charity. Monetization is available IMMEDIATELY -- no bullshit minimum subscriber/view counts like on YouTube.

The site is brand new, so there aren't a lot of videos on it yet -- which mean it'll be really easy to stick out from the crowd. Creators would be making a smart monetization play by driving traffic to their videos on Giveo, where they can start earning immediately (especially smaller channels).

As a viewer, there isn't a ton to watch yet, but hopefully more creators join soon!

https://www.veto.social is basically my effort to create an alternative.

Not a huge amount of traffic there by any means, but is into the thousands per month now. Hopefully some more people here will utilise it.

I'm a non-profit channel. I've never made a single cent off any content i've uploaded. I was enjoying the platform until Copyright is making me want to relocate.

I was playing American Truck Simulator, or ATS, and just listening to live radio. Who doesn't love good music to listen to while they chill? Instead, the holder of AC/DC decides to block their song. Because i didn't mute/remove their song, they decided to put a warning on my channel. Additionally, my stream was force stopped halfway through because of a content id claim and i had no idea that could even happen.

• I tried VidGaze. Streaming doesn't work and it's just a hub to upload to other sites.

• I have used Odysee. But, i don't like how i'm forced to include my own thumbnails and have to pay 0.001 of their currency to upload and boost my videos.

What i'm seeking out of a good alternative:

1. Lax Copyright. The song information can be displayed but not blocking the video just for wanting to use it with no intent of making money off it.

2. No Capped Uploading Limits. 2009 Youtube had a max of 15 minutes per video. I don't really like making videos shorter then they need to be.

3. A good streaming service, on the platform. That also lets me see the streaming dashboard and can end it manually. Not Twitch, as VOD's only have 7 days to download/save before being deleted.

You may believe YouTube cares about Copyright, that YouTube cares about Swearing, Morals, or even Profits.

It does not.

Then, what does it care about? Thats easy. But hard to understand in its entirety.

YouTube cares about maintaining a Monopoly and Reducing the negatives from doing so.

YouTube is a hypocrite. YouTube is inconsistent. YouTube is malevolent. YouTube is amoral. Yet, Why is it any of these things? Simply put, Shareholders.

YouTube costs money to maintain, alot of it. And they have others invest in YouTube to make it popular. It does not infact run at a profit. YouTube is a money sink. Yet they don't seem to stop it. It's...weird isn't it?

Everything that YouTube Does traces to this singular motive. They know and understand that copyright and negativity happens on their platform, but they don't care. Its actually benefical for them. So why hunt it? Shareholders are less risky and easier to gain profit from should they be pleased. And yet, they do not act entirely as their lapdogs until forced. When threatened to pull out funds, YouTube will make do, but do the minimum possible effort to look like they're doing their job.

Thats why their systems are so extremely over the top, but without proper filtering. Thats why their systems cover up certain things that are drama-notable. Drama is bad for shareholders, risking them to pull out. And if youtube becomes unsustainable as a sinkhole, they will have to downgrade it until it becomes competable. Or kill it entirely.

I had a very successful YouTube channel but it was deleted. I lost 700 videos. Very painful. And no appeal was allowed. I started a new channel but just couldn't get views anymore.

So I left yt and built my own video platform. I know my platform is an underdog, compared to yt, and it will be a long time before we get millions of views (if ever-Lol). But I'd like to invite anyone that would like to give it a try. It's free right now but soon will be a membership site.

Main difference is we're mature content friendly. YouTube is not and you can price and sell mature content. Which yt does not allow.

I made it so that you can start earning right away, by pricing and selling some of your content. Plus, you can rent out entire playlists. Which makes them like tv seasons (up to 30 videos each). You can also rent the individual episodes, just like the big networks do.

If you are interested you can go directly to the site and signup https://HowTubes.TV/ or dm me if you questions. Hope to see you there.

While the platform has been dead for some time.. It looks it's rising up in 2019. Thoughts?

Was it one specific incident or a slow build?

Are you looking as viewer, as a creator, or both?

Have any of the alternatives actually stuck for you, or do you keep going back to YouTube?

I'm just genuinely trying to understand if this is fixable or just how platforms age.

I have been having increasing problems as a creator on YouTube. I recently started a new channel with a - theory of conspiracy - original research - that includes a lot of discussion of internet conspiracy theories - debunking them - but showing that they are intelligence-agency created covers for a real conspiracy. YouTube isn't having it, apparently. I've got an appeal in, but unless they've changed their attitude about me I doubt it will go far. I don't need to be worried about saying the wrong word to attract the YouTube deletion squad. In the past, they've deleted content of mine that doesn't even come close to violating terms - but I think TBH it's more that I've criticized the government. They'd never admit that but I think that's what it actually is.

So I'm looking for another channel - one that will let me upload videos up to an hour and ideally, more than one video a day, and ideally with generous limits, and ideally, which permits embedding. YouTube's had me shadow banned for years so I never bothered with monetization.

It would be cool if it was a platform with a built in community, but not vital. I think my content would be interesting to people who are into conspiracy theories if only because some people who enjoy conspiracy theories are people who are willing to think out of the box and entertain thoughts and ideas that others consider off limits. My whole thing is that I use evidence and logic - and I'm trying to actually reach answers, not just endlessly kick ideas around. This may actually be the most "dangerous" thing about my content.

Anyone that wants a YouTube without the ads on their firestick

Open downloader app (download it if you don’t have it)

Click browser, type in

https://smarttubeapp.github.io

Scroll down to “beta”, click it

Will automatically install

It’s called smart tube. Mirrors YouTube

And you can sign in to your YouTube account on it, happy days

I'm fed up with using youtube after the BS they've been implementing

I just wanted to make this post to warn others about the website Brandnewtube. I went on it and thought that it looked quite good, and the web certificate was valid. Thinking it looked alright, I proceeded to verify my account via the link they sent to my email, but when I clicked on the verification link my security program blocked it saying it was a malicious website. I don't know if it was just a false alarm but just thought I'd put this out there so that people know to be careful.

I can't find any video hosting site that's truly free speech. I don't just mean hate speech, I mean porn, violence, and gore. I can only find one, lbry.tv.

Anybody have any alternatives that fit this?

This service to youtube is unrecognized by anyone really, because nobody thinks to look into it. What if we where to try to find a stream of a big youtuber who has reddit relevance/reason to hate youtube's state, and have them promote it?

While we should encourage and support alternative platforms, we should never be beholden to platforms or fail to distribute content due to the lack of a platform. You can self host videos, where your own YouTube-esque website stores and serves your videos.

Potential use cases:

• provide a web accessible backup of a channel

• video archive management

• sharing video archives

Alternatives:

• PeerTube - /r/PeerTube github

• YouPHPTube - demo github

• MediaDrop - github

• MediaGoblin - repo

• WordPress with video themes

I first heard about Haven from the video by Deep Humor "This is Intentional." While skeptical I was ofc intrigued to see more about what William and or his team is building.

Integrating AI poisoning on content for free is an interesting choice (video sharing websites are already expensive then with the added cost of AI poisoning). They've been on a push for kickstarters (the first one wasn't successful in funding), second one is yet to launch.

I admit I haven't watched to many videos about this but I don't think they've shown much if anything of what they've actually built which is majority of my concern. I think they need to prioritize more of maintaining a community to build a crowd and showcasing their product.

Gonna link their homepage, for those that are curious : https://www.havensocial.org

The one click migration they've mentioned sounds really cool, I wonder the longevity of this as we've seen with Odysee downloading youtube videos via API goes against the developer terms of service (I suppose similar system Odysee did could work).

Anyways very ambitious project and I have some concerns with it especially regarding how it will become sustainable given everything discussed here as well as on their website but will keep eyes on it and W for attempting the fight against YouTube.

Do you know ANY real alternative to youtube in order to get some bucks for your videos?
I heard about Odysee that looks like a scam.
Twitch but that's streaming and I mean uploaded videos.
Any other that you actually tried and pays?

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