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Hello there!

Many of you consider LBRY and Odysee as a good alternative to YouTube, because it does not track you, and does not do evil things.

Let me clear up your heads.

LBRY and Odysee still tracks you. It does still use an algorithm, that recommends you content. To be honest, it isn't really different from YouTube. You need a phone number to verify, or other personal information. They use third-party components, to provide their services like Google AdSense. If it grows more, then we will get to the same point, what we have now with YouTube. (If they don't make a change.)

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  • To personalize your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested. To improve our website in order to better serve you.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 years ago

Peertube is the way to go

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 years ago (1 children)

PeerTube is the based alternative

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Peertube is not librejs compliant though

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 years ago

Possibly sacrilegious question, but what difference does it make here? The JavaScript that's delivered to users is essentially a binary, and the source code to compile that binary is available. That's how it's done in other software, too.

And with PeerTube being under the AGPLv3, this also holds even when someone modifies the version of PeerTube that they host, as they have to make those changes available.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Perfect is the enemy of good.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

it’s also full of fascists a la rumble

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

The non-mainstream social media options will always be the ones with people with more extreme political views (on both sides of the spectrum).

Lemmy has a great deal of tankies. They seem less prominent now, because the influx of people from Reddit diluted them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Pure seeking profit in short term rather than long term with less profit but more engagement in community. Very dangerous company for open source alternatives (honeytrap)..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just use new pipe on mobile and freetube on desktop and it basically fixes all the issues with YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ok, now too may things make scene for me

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