[deadalus]

Alternative Free video hosting sites :

https://www.dailymotion.com/

https://lbry.tv/

https://d.tube/

https://dlive.tv/

https://www.bitchute.com/

[glenstein]

The federation of peertube instances, which I feel will eventually be the most critical alternative of all:

https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances

[dreen]

I have a random question about peertube hope you guys dont mind.

Can I run a background task on my machine to help in some way with making the content of some instance more available to people, or would I have to run my own instance?

[RealStickman_]

I think you can torrent the video and they should then also be served from your machine.

[glenstein]

From this FAQ it looks like you may be able to as long as you torrent from something that is WebRTC friendly.

https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/FAQ.md#s...

[RealStickman_]

I wasn't aware of the WebRTC requirement. Thanks

[ehsankia]

Which one of these provides community contributed captioning?

[system2]

Better question: Which one of these even have a community?

[LockAndLol]

Be the change you want to see. If all y'all do is sit around and complain that there isn't a community instead of joining the small community that already exists and growing it, well big surprise, it won't grow (at least not as quickly).

[system2]

I personally don't care about youtube or other video communities. To me, youtube itself is good enough. It's been serving its purpose since the first day I visited it. I'd care less if they are monopoly or not.

[ausbah]

everytime I visit sites like these, they're already infested with crypticurrency nuts, racists, conspiracy theorists, and all other manner of internet wack jobs

[diath]

Are "internet wack jobs" not allowed a platform? There's certainly some content niche that they're filling for some people even if you disagree with them/dislike them.

[Goronmon]

Are "internet wack jobs" not allowed a platform?

They are, but if you aren't interested in that content, why would you be interested in joining communities where that is the focus?

[ausbah]

when every alternative platform immediately gets filled with people who hold really despicable views, it's a hard pass for normal consumers to join

look at gab and voat