They got rid of the Dislike button. Fine. They changed the Homepage to 2 ginormous thumbnails per row. WTF are they thinking? They doubled down and forced that change onto the Subscription page too when people started just using that instead. Now I’v noticed a LOT of videos posted from subscribed creators do not appear on the subscriptions page at all. Go to homepage? There it is plain as day. I’d complain (30second unskippable ad) about the (30second unskippable ad) annoying bombardment (30second unskippable ad) of advertising on (30second unskippable ad) the platform but (30second unskippable ad) I use Ublock.

There has to be some sort of competitor (not Twitch) that is a reasonable equivalent? I’m at my wits end here. It seems all Media Content online has become outright hostile to consumers and I want to go to war.

  • SR Gray@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Peertube is the Fediverse equivalent. It needs more content, and more instances to host said content, but it’s a good start.

  • IntDimensionalTravel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I bought vinegar on the Mac AppStore and my life has been so much easier. No ads, simple HTML5 player for the videos. Sure you lose some of the more advanced functionality, but fuck it - I’m never going back.

    And on my AndroidTV I use SmartTubePlus. Soo good!

  • DevOops@lemmy.ptEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Nebula, it is a paid service, but I’m happy to pay for something that just works. There’s a lot of smart creators there as well

    • tvmole@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Same. A lot of science and history YouTubers post there. And there’s a lot of early releases and exclusives like Real Engineering’s amazing D-day series. Pretty inexpensive and totally worth it

  • Rozaŭtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    They got rid of the Dislike button

    There’s an extension to get it back

    They changed the Homepage to 2 ginormous thumbnails per row

    And they’ve hidden the ‘watch later’ button, to press it now you first need to wait for the video preview to load 🙄

    WTF are they thinking?

    It’s like they purposely make the UI a little bit worse every two months.

  • MotherFlocker@jlai.lu
    1·
    1 year ago

    NewPipe is the alternative so far. Libretube is cool, but the instances are unstable. Odysee is also good though it can get slow depending on your connection.

  • Tiritibambix@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been using a mix of selfhosted Invidous / Freetube at home, revanced on the phone. I’m good so far, but I don’t consume much YouTube anyway so the homepage / subscription page doesn’t impact my experience, as I can personalize it in Invidious anyway.

    You can try Peertube or Odyssee.