• Anonymouse@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I post videos a few times a year to share events with family. I just posted a few yesterday. I can’t in good faith continue to post to YT and encourage my family to use it as the platform declares war on their users.

    But what else is there that allows me to post videos for free and my family can just watch them without having to install a new app, register for yet another service or configure some obscure plug in?

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      1 year ago

      There’s other services, but they’re populated largely by the sort of people Youtube has kicked off entirely, which some people don’t like.

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      1 year ago

      Hop on a peertube instance. There are ones made by normal people, eg. https://urbanists.video (this one probably won’t accept your registration, but just showcasing).

      If you heavily compress your videos or if they’re not very long, you could also upload a .mp4 file to a file host or just your own website (johndoe.com/myvid.mp4). Then the browser would just download and play the .mp4 file.

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      1 year ago

      Odysee fits the bill but be warned there are some conspiracy theorists nuts and nerds on there.

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      You could post the video to Dropbox or something? They might have to download the full video before playback, but i wouldn’t be surprised if some file sharing services are smart enough to stream video.