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submitted 7 months ago by lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Today in a Privacy community a post about YouTube. No word about privacy but all about which software or settings are needed to watch videos and the money needed to host videos. It made me wonder whether some of you can lead a meaningful life without YouTube. Or will a cold turkey bring the worst out of you ?

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[-] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago

The only thing I use it for is Dreaming Spanish, and it's months since I've watched any of that content, so I'll say yeah, I think I'll be ok in a world without Youtube

[-] darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

There are a lot of great creators on YouTube, and I would definitely miss their videos. But if YT gets much worse (and it's getting worse by the day), I can live without it.

[-] Mkengine@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago

I only watch movie and game trailers on YouTube, so yes, it would not bother me if they would be bankrupt tomorrow.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 2 points 7 months ago

I only primarily watch two channels on YouTube and while I would miss them I could get the content from articles that they reference anyway so it wouldn't kill me but I wouldn't particularly like it either.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

I haven’t been to YouTube in over a decade. Granted, many embedded videos have been hosted on YouTube. I see a need for video hosting, and I’m not sure how that could be sustainable without advertising.

Perhaps there could be something like a a torrent, where people volunteer a certain amount of free space, and files are downloaded in chunks from whomever is available at the time? There could be one central repository, with clones, that keeps track, and distributes these chunks in the most efficient way, and moves frequently accessed data to faster hosts.

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[-] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Not really. Most of the content I watch is from there, from tech stuff to history and current news

[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 1 points 7 months ago

While I have revanced on my phone and smarttube on my chromecast, the last time I watched a youtube video for an extended amount of time was two month ago. I did open those apps a few weeks ago, but only to see if youtube finally blocks them. So yeah, I guess I can quit youtube cold turkey now.

[-] tostiman@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

No, not really

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Yes hypothetically but only if the youtubers I actually care about have content elsewhere as well. Which is some but not many

[-] Ilflish@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Probably one of the harder things that I could do. It's a replacement for TV so I could try and slot in TV but I think it would be frustrating to not have the copious amounts of content

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 0 points 7 months ago

TV is simply not there. Some YouTube channels are about a topic that's so niche that there's nothing similar on TV.

[-] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works -2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yes, will we do have Odysee and Rumble. But people say they're Alt-Right (whatever that means). So fuck it, I guess.

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