I’m scared
I just keep hoping it gets bad enough for something better to flourish in its place
I mean…peer tube is available.
It’s available but not flourishing last I checked. Just to be clear I’m not denigrating it at all, I desperatelywant it to flourish. I pay for nebula, too, as well as patreon for many of my preferred creators, in the hopes that they can explore alternatives to YouTube. Hell, I pay for floatplane and dropout too, as much as I hate the fractured environment it’s creating, I want the most direct way to support the content I watch, but YouTube is almost certainly still my most watched platform
Things would have to get massively shitty for that to happen. The volume of content on YouTube will be extremely difficult to replicate.
Just as a reference look at reddit. They’ve suffered a loss of users but they’re not going down anytime soon and while lemmy still isn’t going to take over anytime soon. There’s just too much inertia…
In the meantime: Piped or Invidious.
Just tested on an incognito tab while logged out. Still works.
I bet it’s a browser thing. On FireFox I cannot load the YouTube homepage until i login, but on Chrome it’s perfectly fine.
I’m using tubular and even age restricted videos are working like a charm…
My sons are watching YT right now using Guest access on the AppleTV app.
