DeGoogle Yourself @lemmy.ml Dariusmiles2123 @sh.itjust.works 4h ago

Help to get rid of YouTube

Hi everyone!

I’ve almost entirely degoogled my life, except for Youtube.

Here are my center of interests and some channels I follow:

Linux: The Linux Experiment, Tech Hut
Basketball: NBA, Andy Hoops, Heat Check, Jonny Arnett, BasketNews
Cars: Throttle House, Everyday Driver, Car and Driver
Console Gaming: GamingBolt, IGN
Tech: Linus Tech Tips, Techquickie

Concerning Linux, it has been easy to find alternatives to YouTube as The Linux Experiment is on PeerTube and I can support him for 1$ a month Through Patreon.

Tech Hut is on Odysee so I could watch his videos here and support him through Buy Me A Coffee or something similar if I wanted to.

I know I could watch everything from the Linus Tech Tips on Floatplane but 5$ a month is a bit too expensive.

Do you have any suggestions about anyone producing similar content to what I’ve described above (Basketball, Console Gaming, Cars and Tech) that I could watch on a YouTube alternative?

I don’t mind paying 1-2$ a month for a channel I enjoy but I can’t pay more for now 😇

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After looking a bit into Patreon, Peertube, Floatplane, Nebula, Rumble, Odysee and Dailymotion, I find it crazy that even when you're willing to pay, all the good content is the one that you can watch for free on YouTube (with a few exceptions of course).
For finding content creators on alternative services, maybe use Grayjay for Android? It aggregates multiple services into a single, mostly concise UI, and when you do a search, Grayjay can search all services at once. Also recently it added a recommended tab, which should help finding new channels on the go.
Patreon is your main choice I think. Many youtubers post videos there. Though you might have to pay a lot if you subscribe to a lot of creators.

You can also consider a FOSS YouTube client but the most privacy-focused ones are dead now unfortunately.
- Yeah but using a YouTube client would feel a bit dishonest to me as you’re still using Youtube in the end😇
  
  I’ll look more into Patreon as I didn’t know you could have videos directly on it.
  
  I’m just using it to listen to the Linuux Experiment podcast.
- Newpipe is a great and active FOSS Youtube client!
  
  Unfortunately it has the "Sign in to confirm that you're not a bot" issue like 99% of the clients. That's what I meant in "dead". Also it's not the most privacy-protecting one by far.
- Some YouTubers also just post unlisted YouTube links on their Patreon unfortunately
I wish there was a YouTube equivalent of Sonarr that just uses yt-dl to auto-grab and organize YT channels you want as new episodes come out. Then you could just play with Plex or Jellyfin.
- Maybe this would be useful for organizing?
  
  EDIT: Forgot link: https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist
- I feel like at one point I saw a way to use yt-dlp to get only the latest videos on a channel/playlist.
Not really an answer to your question, but I'll share my approach. Youtube channels have rss feeds, so you can "subscribe" using any rss reader, and don't need to login.

So I just use firefox with the following addons. A seperate youtube container + adblock + in-video ad skip + age verification skip + feedbro as rss reader.

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