Hi! sorry for the random topic 😅

Youtube keeps getting more and more annoying. Is there a good other platform where to migrate? If people were to migrate, where would they go?

the thing I liked about youtube is the massive amount of content, and knowing that if I upload a video, it’s really easy to watch by others. I like the ability to follow channels too.

  • cakeofhonor
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    361 year ago

    Lots of good suggestions already, but if you have to stick to YouTube, you could always use a third party client. FreeTube for desktop and Newpipe for Android. They function great. You don’t need an account and can organize and export your history and subscriptions, it’s a much better way to interact with YouTube than the official methods. Newpip even allows for background playing.

      • @Invalid@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        I use it every day. Works pretty well if you patch with the recommended version, but it’s not perfect. Still good enough to daily drive tho.

      • @Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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        71 year ago

        Yes! It’s wonderful!

        It also kills reddit adds in the official app. That said, I’m not sure how much I’ll use it at this point… Still, I like having the option loaded up!

    • @nodiet@feddit.de
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      21 year ago

      Unfortunately, freetube development has gone stale and i keep getting random errors every now and then. I started using piped recently, but all their instances are now rate limited… so hopefully someone will pick up freetube development again (or release a similar client for desktop, perhaps based on the pipeextractor)

      • cakeofhonor
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        21 year ago

        Aw I didn’t realize that. It still works fine on my end. I get warning notifications in my windows VM, but everything still works. On Linux everything runs smoothly no errors. I think newpipe on Android is my most preferred implementation of a third party YouTube viewer so I’d love a desktop version of that.