Basically they want to add AI tools to make AI generated shorts and videos.
Edit: changed to a similar article that at least has a preview
It always gets worse before it gets worse
I can’t remember the last time I used YouTube and this will only help continue that streak
Are there alternatives? I use it for instructional videos primarily.
I use freetube, so that I only see videos from people I sub to. No ads is nice as well.
Huh? That’s… still YouTube, just curated. We thought you had meant an entirely non-Google video platform; leaving YT completely is the goal. All I can think of is PeerTube, or the paid service Nebula.
By the way, ads are easy to defeat: use any Firefox-based browser (like Firefox or Waterfox) with AdNauseam, or NewPipe on Android. You don’t need FreeTube for that (although I do also try to remember to use FreeTube anyway, haha).
A lot of the indie animators I follow aren’t on Peertube, only youtube and usually patreon. I’d love to support them all, but it’s not feasible on my salary.
My bad: I didn’t see that you’re not @Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone (the original parent commentator in this chain), whose video sources I’m now wondering about. Leaving YouTube itself, entirely, is the major hurdle for us all in this case.
Honestly I don’t have much to suggest. I kind of just do without a lot more now. I always do like to suggest checking out fmhy.net. Check out the streaming section on this page and you may come across something you like as an alternative. Sorry I couldn’t be more specific for suggestions but that page also has a lot of ways to avoid all of YouTube’s bullshit too here’s the link https://fmhy.net/video
Absolutely:
- Odysee
- Peertube
- Dailymotion
- Floatplane
- Patreon
- Bitchute
- Nebula
- Rumble
- Spotify
- Apple
etc. Are there good alternatives? mmmmmmmno, not really.
Thanks for the list. I’m already in the Apple-sphere for entertainment and there’s likely no going back from that (it offers what I want at a price I’m not irked b y). But, because I use YouTube mainly for instructional videos (food recipes, wood working, lawn care, whatever my id has steered me towards), it’s hard to find a replacement. Cheers!
Do peertube have instance for shitposts?
I use youtube through newpipe in Android. UBlockOrigin kills this nonsense on the desktop browser anyway. For smarttvs, my app is SmartTube.
I am already so fucking sick of getting sloprolled by recommended AI-generated garbage
Doing just like Spotify, filling it with AI nonsense and promoting it, that way they don’t have to pay creators.
I think the internet is dying.
Its already dead
Who is this for? I get that there is a profit motive for this slop but are consumers actually getting anything out of it at all?
Why would it matter if consumers get anything out of it?
The only thing that matters is the next quarter’s profits
Low-effort drivel has always been a cheap way to get people to stay in a platform’s ecosystem.
Well, I guess I won’t add new subs anymore then.
I am so glad i delted youtube from my phone lmao. At this rate, i might delete my account for good too. Its the only thing i have google account for anymore; save for being locked into the playstore for banking and stuff
Sadly a real alternative doesn’t really exist, content creators aren’t going to move unless they can profit off of it.
Plus the cost of running one is absurd hosting videos, traffic to those videos, crowd sourcing will help but some will still be stuck with a ridiculously expensive bill.
Yes we have some alternatives now but the fed ones have basically have no content.
Is this better than Tubular? Can you hide shorts on this?
Yes you can
Amazing! I installed it and am very pleased with all the functionalities, although I must say I wished the shorts would also be hidden in the channel group feed. I think it’s only hidden in search results now.
Removed by mod
Different apps won’t save you from getting covered in AI slop.
Revanced allows hiding shorts, which solves this problem for the time being
I still wonder why Spotify didn’t bring their own video streaming platform, YouTube premium is killing them.
Dman… Not even Invidious can protect me from this.
