I wanted to list and ask for platforms that can substitute YouTube.
Here it’s:
- NASA+, Space and Astronomy Videos.
- Vimeo, Professional Videos and Documentaries.
- TED, Talks and presentations.
- PeerTube, there is not a lot of videos, but some creators upload there.
- ARTE, Euro documantries and analysis.
- RedBull TV, Sports related videos.
- RTE Player, Journalism.
- BBC videos, diverse topics.
- NFB Films, Canadian Films.
The internet archive is an untapped treasure trove of movies and shows. It requires some digging, but it’s worth it. I’ve found a couple of shows I like and movies. Some of them are in poor quality, ripped from staticky VHS tapes or pirated from the movie theatre on someone’s camera. But there’s a shocking number that are uploaded in high quality, pristine format. I will list a few I’ve discovered. I haven’t looked extensively but I assume there are probably some good documentaries in the Internet Archive as well. So far though I’ve just been focused on shows and movies.
The Matrix (1999) Disney’s Gargoyles (1994-97) Rosemary’s Baby (1968) The Impossible (2012) Rear Window (1954) The Last Unicorn (1982) Moomin Season 1 (1990) True Romance (1993) The Thing (1982) Quatre Adventures de Reinette et Mirabelle (1987)
I’ve also found the entire storyboard compilation for Studio Ghibli’s The Wind Rises, and the Welcome to Nightvale Podcast uploaded, not sure how many seasons but I was very happy to find that. Love WTNV.
I like NewPipe
- Floatplane
- Odysee
- Tumble
What I mostly use is peertube, but it only works once you’ve found the creatirs you enjoy (Linux Experiment, Gardiner Bryant and Veronica Explains for me).
Also means.tv
arte is the best!
- dailymotion: youtube alternative
Hard pass for Dailymotion, with all respect to you if you are using it.
My reasoning here being that, Dailymotion had stopped accepting individual creators uploads(only companies can upload) and that it loads every tracker on the planet earth whenever you visit them and that they don’t have comments.
Most probably it will die by itself in 3-5 years.
It’s also owned by Bolloré the French wannabe Musk.
no, i don’t use dailymotion. I’m just adding it to the list of alternatives
Thank you for sharing this list, it’s awesome! I see a couple of good options for me.
Great list actually. I use (and have paid for) grayjay which so far is great as a way to aggregate some of these. I’d also suggest Patreon, despite not being perfect in itself it has a lot of youtube creators on it so you dont have to give up certain creators
Is YouTube embroiled in some controversy or something? I’d search Google but don’t trust it anymore
Youtube is owned by Google. People who are avoiding it typically do so for that reason, plus the enshittification of the platform over the past few years.
Dayamn. That played out ironically
Yeah. Such as: blocking the playback until the user disabled their adblocker, making it impossible to access 18+ content without signing up, repeatedly breaking third-party clients and frontends, apparently blocking the playback if the user is behind a VPN… I am now afraid they might eventually demand a login just to use the site at all. Doing my part in downloading everything I like at least.
