Hey guys! Just started degoogle and its a fun experience! I’m found out that Nebula was made as a oficial alternative to Youtube made by creators against Youtube alghoritm. You guys think its a valid choice? I’m considering using it on GrayJay. What you guys think?
Moving from one crappy corp to the next crappy corp won’t change anything…
What makes you think Nebula is a crappy corp?
Peertube is a decentralized open-source alternative : https://joinpeertube.org/
I got a life time subscription when it first launched, thinking if it was still around in 3 years the subscription would have paid for itself self. I am a fan of Wendover and a few of the other creators so it was a good investment for me. The ability to find new content is lacking though, the only reason why I still have a gmail account is because I use Unwatched on my iPhone and iPad to watch my YouTube algorithm.
Yeah, i heard they have no alghoritm. But to me is ok. I just really want to get rid of youtube, but the only thing keeping me there is game trailers.
Don’t worry soon those will go away, with the death of physical media why would they bother advertising on youtube when they can just advertise on their store’s webpage. Sure Microslop backed down (a little) when they tried killing physical, but Nintendo has not and Sony is already retooling its centres that printed disks. You will pay for stuff but not own it and you will be happy about it!
Just remember: If buying is not owning piracy is not stealing!
No. Nebula is a Zionist platform. They kicked Second Thought because he wasn’t pro-Israel enough.
Peertube is a decentralized alternative but currently there’s not that much activity.
Yeah. Peertube is a great concept but there is no enough content.
I remember that. He’s on means.tv now, right?
Yes, and on YouTube still.
The Kavernacle has recently started calling compatible left content creators the “Nebula left.”
https://xcancel.com/TheKavernacle/status/2061872971019591710
Isn’t YouTube owned by Israel?
It’s a good platform, but it absolutely does not cover the same breadth of content as YouTube. To me, Nebula feels a bit more like old-school discovery channel before it got all crappy. I pay for Nebula, but I still watch 99% of my online video on YouTube. Of the range of different types of content I watch on YouTube, I’d say Nebula covers about 5% of it. It is pretty nice for when a creator is dealing with copyright bullshit on YouTube, but I can still watch the video on Nebula.
I’ve been using Nebula for years.
It depends, first check the creators there to see if you are already watching them on YouTube.
There is no algorithm, that for me is a plus but for some people it is a downside.
Some creators add a little extra in their videos that is not in the YouTube version, others add companion videos to the main one that is only on Nebula.
I was checking some creators and got really surprised when i found out a lot of channels i follow are there. Even the therapist that review characters and movies.
Define a valid alternative. As a consumer, is it a valid source for high quality, educational, and non-bigoted content? Yes. Is it a full replacement for YouTube? No. Primarily because Nebula is invite-only. You can’t just sign up for an account with Nebula and start posting content. You first have to have an account somewhere else (almost certainly YouTube.) Then once you get a good enough following, if you pass a vibe check, you can get invited to Nebula. It’s a “don’t call us, we’ll call you” situation.
There’s also less community engagement on Nebula. There’s no comment section under the videos. I can understand why they chose to not have comments. But from time to time I actually do like commenting on YouTube videos and often receive good replies, sometimes even from the video creators themselves.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Nebula. I’ve been a paid subscriber there for several years. It’s just not a one-to-one replacement for all aspects of YouTube. Like with any DeGoogling option, there are going to be some tradeoffs.
Yeah, i was considering those points :/ i heard about peertube, but those youtube alternatives(incluiding odysee) unfortunately suffers the same problem. No monetization means that there is not a real effort on editing/creating videos. There was a lot of cool channels that just dissapeared and stopped creating content.
I’m a nebula subscriber, I like the idea and I will try to watch stuff on that over the same video on YouTube, but if I’m brutally honest I probably watch a good 20x as much YT as I do nebula. It just doesn’t have enough of the stuff I want to see, and a lot of what I try to watch on there just doesn’t do it for me.
YMMV.
No idea what Nebula is. There are lots of good Youtube front ends (I use newpipe) but all are unauthorized and all inherently are nearly useless without the video collection residing on Youtube servers. They in fact break quite often because of changes at the YT backend. So far they’ve managed to recover from the breakages, but that’s not guaranteed to last. It’s an unpleasant situation.
Nebula is a app created by Youtube content creators, as a alternative to Youtube. Not only they are paid better here but also the content created is more “curated” than just people posting videos.
