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Peertube's moment might come soon
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I’m placing my bets on piped video instead, for now at least. YouTube needs something more tragic, like getting acquired by Elon Musk, before it bleeds for real.
Afaik piped is not an alternative to YouTube just a different client for it.
If everyone suddenly moved to piped one day both YouTube and piped would probably suffer
Yes, it's a client. Well, for better or for worse, no chance that this huge of a user base will move to piped. I don't understand why it's not super famous yet, but I guess invidious and piped are simply fringe tech still.
That's why I said that YouTube would need a major tragedy to get a real hit, real alternatives like Peertube are going to struggle a lot against the network effect. Nebula has a much better shot given the amount of content creators invested on it, and it's still a long shot.
Might be an unpopular opinion but I think piped is far worse of an experience than the default site/app
Doesn't work half the time, can't do 4k for some reason , audio is a bit scuffed and no recommendations
Don't get me wrong I really want to like it but it has a while to go before it can get mainstream appeal
If YouTube has a major tragedy and people migrate to piped YouTube will find a way to block piped, it's their database at the end of the day
Not unpopular with me at all, my wife also prefers regular YouTube because the video quality tends to be better. YouTube just handles variable connection speeds better, and the buffering and quality switching is very smart. I mostly agree, the watching experience is superior.
But YouTube ads are among the highest annoyances of my daily life right now, they simply could not be less relevant for me. Because I'm in NA it's adamant that I buy an EV or an SUV, a bunch of fast food ads, it's just too much. I'm willing to spend 20 seconds waiting for Piped to buffer instead of 8 seconds of YouTube ads.
And I'm not really hoping Piped will ever go mainstream, because as you said, if that happens they're toast. Piped and Invidious have to stay niche to keep flying under the radar - well not really under the radar, YouTube already sent a Cease and Desist to Invidious, but I guess for now they're not invested in enforcing it yet.