Hello guys. I hope it’s okay to post a question in this community.

I’m basically looking for a Youtube and Google Drive alternative for video sharing. I’ve looked at Peertube, Dtube and Odyssee, but frankly, I don’t like them because there is some questionable content on those sites.

That said, I don’t want to get into personal views and stuff, I just want to find an alternative to Big Tech. I want to upload videos and be able to share them with friends online. ‘I upload and they stream’ is what I’m looking for.

Proton Drive offers video preview, but it’s limited to a 100 MB file and my videos are going to be longer.

TIA for any and all suggestions.

EDIT: I’m looking for a service.

  • Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.com
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    9 months ago

    Hmm, that makes for a pretty limited pool I’d expect them. Video hosting is a resource heavy business, botg in storage and bandwidth sense. A provider big or small is likely going to look to recoup some of those costs, either through ads/tracking or direct payment from the user.

    Smaller free services like the various peertube hosts are taking on both costs and risks by providing a public service where people could upload questionable content, and will have less resources to sort the bad from the good than a big provider would.

    I can’t say I know of any that would fit, small, well moderated, and preferably free (but not required) off hand. What is it you’re trying to avoid the big players for? If it’s a privacy front then simply putting it on a separate platform without any kind of access controls then they’ll eventually spider it into their search engines just as a normal course of operation. There are some interesting P2P based apps like ZeroNet or another that I’ll have to look up which pretty well created a private file net with a desktop app, but those are a bit more clunky than a website where you just upload to and stream from.

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      9 months ago

      You’re right. I’ll just go with a cloud storage provider then, other than Google. My main concern is privacy, yes. I recently got rid of my Youtube account, which had accumulated a little too much information about me for my liking. But returning to cloud storage, If I use shareable links for friends and de-share the videos when done, I don’t think they’ll leak outside of said cloud storage provider.