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What are you into?
Doesn't matter. Name a single FREE alternative to YouTube with content worth watching.
Depends on the content you're wanting to watch.
See, you can't even just name something. Because it doesn't exist.
So you're looking for a service that spoon feeds you non-specific videos?
Do you have no opinions yourself? I don't care what's on it; what alternatives do you think exist?
I can give you the alternative if you tell me what you want to watch?
Videos.
Plenty of videos on loops, peertube, archive sites, libraries, and public domain sites
Why are you going all in on a thread from two months ago?
Just logged back in
12 hours later. Whatcha got?
2 months later, the alternative is anything else except YouTube. Maybe even nothing at all.
Some nice alternatives are local libraries, public domain hosts, archive websites, and open source federated video sharing sites/apps
How about mtg gameplay, video game speedruns, beat battles, and vtubers? That's pretty much all I use YouTube for these days, but I'd love to drop it completely.
Photography, Star trek, fountain pens
Photography, check out pixelfed
Star trek, check out https://www.trekbbs.com/
Fountain pens, check out https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/
Forums like the fountain pen one and and the photography one you suggested are a Reddit replacement. However, sometimes you want to watch a video though. So they're not good YouTube replacements in my opinion.
Pixelfed is great as an Instagram replacement, but again no videos.
I looked through them before posting and the users there were sharing their information through different mediums, including videos.
I've never once seen a video on pixelfed, it's a photo platform.
The others I'll take a look
I do cosplay, dollhouses, and dioramas, and peertube is pretty dead on that front.
Cosplay: https://www.therpf.com/forums/
Dollhouses: https://www.dollshousespastandpresent.co.uk/Forum
Dioramas : https://www.scalemodeladdict.com/forums/dioramas-terrain.88/