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YouTube removed a lot of videos this year off the website. I am sure the largest issue is storage. The website is barely useable. I hate searching on it. I wish there was a website that was basically like a search engine for people's profiles, and people will have to host videos on their own server with their own hardware. Videos could be tagged for easy searching. I really want a video website that had a major improved tagging system. I really miss the video response feature for example, and I wish I could chain videos like animation memes into a sort of tree so I know which ones are the originals and which are forks. I wish I could search for specific styles of animations for specific songs. Like basically I kind of want to combine elements from danbooru and github, where there is a deep tag system and people could even upload source files for people to look at and use. I also just want an alternative website that doesn't have so much hate... YouTube is filled up with too many drama channels shitting on people just for money. What do you think?
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Reply by Virtual Insanity
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Reply by Sugilite Shadows
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Kind of like that, but more individualistic. I am not thinking about multiple YouTube clones. Rather, just hosting videos, tagging videos, and attaching file sources along with it.
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Reply by Virtual Insanity
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Invidious is great, but it is just an ad-free stripped back front end for YouTube, not really what the OP was asking about.
Reply by l0cal
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oddsee was a blockchain/youtube/filesharing thing that exist(ed) along with utreon and the like, the issue with video hosting is the storage requirements, and the sites fill up with nazis and conspiracy theorists youtube banned.
maybe p2p fediverse video sharing could fix this... torrenting exists, maybe build a platform from that...
the youtube monopoly must end
Reply by Ina
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LOL l0cal. Throwing buzzwords like a news anchor.
Odysee has interesting stuff to watch, not just that. There are artists there too.
And also, OP... if you want some less corporate, you can try to support small projects like BitView (although they need to stop their bullshit sometimes) and KamTape.
YT doesn't give a crap about its users anymore, bc they're too busy selling their asses to investors and propaganda.
Plus, try searching for videos on YT like "cats before:2013" and you will get videos before 2013.
If you're on PC, try using the extension Unhook to clean the mess YT is. It allows you to hide certain things like Shorts, Live chats and even comments.
Other than this, I have nothing else. :P