Today most Invidious instances are experiencing very harsh ip address rate limiting, it is becoming very very hard to watch yt videos through

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    Compare the production values of channels like e.g. philosophy tube and old AVGNs. Times have changed.

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      Philosophy Tube is available on Nebula. I think that place is a viable alternative to YT if you’re mainly watching educational stuff.

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        It is but there’s just not enough content to get me to fully stop YouTube yet. YouTube still has so much long form content only on YouTube.

        That being said, nebula is amazing and you all should check it out and support the creators using it.

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          It is but there’s just not enough content to get me to fully stop YouTube yet

          I don’t think anyone is proposing an overnight switch. You’ve got to take the long view. That said, I do think when it comes to federated activity pub style projects, Mastodon has gotten off the ground, Lemmy has exploded, pixel-fed seems to be doing pretty good, but the video stuff appears to be a tougher nut to crack.

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          My gradual migration from YT has resulted in a very fragmented landscape. Many cool vids on Nebula, some on Odysee, but still way too many in YT. Let’s just hope the enshittification of YT speeds up and people respond accordingly by switching to another platform.

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            At least regarding the enshittification, I’ve started using FreeTube to access all my YouTube content and it has completely negated all enshittification so far. It’s such a great way to watch my subscriptions.

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              That solves some of the problems, so I’ll count that as a step toward. However, the people who make the videos can suddenly be ignored by the algorithm or their channel can suddenly be deleted without a warning.

              As a member of the audience, I’m frequently annoyed by the quality of the search results. They clearly serve YT more than they serve me.