Youtube alternative?

[LPChip]

Hi there,

 

Does Linus Media Group have a youtube alternative?

 

For 4 weeks now, youtube is broken for me. I don't receive email notifications and as a result, I'm missing a lot of videos now. I've sent youtube feedback like 100 times now, but even that function is only working 20% of the time.

 

It sounds like YouTube is dying, so any other platform I can use to keep seeing these videos?

 

Thanks.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

2 minutes ago, LPChip said:

Hi there,

 

Does Linus Media Group have a youtube alternative?

 

For 4 weeks now, youtube is broken for me. I don't receive email notifications and as a result, I'm missing a lot of videos now. I've sent youtube feedback like 100 times now, but even that function is only working 20% of the time.

 

It sounds like YouTube is dying, so any other platform I can use to keep seeing these videos?

 

Thanks.

yotube remover email notifs. LMG does have floatplane, nut its not technically a LMG thing.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Floatplane

[Slayerking92]

http://i.youku.com/i/UMzE1MzE0NzA4MA==?spm=a2hzp.8253876.0.0

 

It doesn't sound like you can afford Floatplane.

[TetraSky]

For LTT content, the best alternative you can get is Floatplane.

For everything else... .... There's not much, unless you consider Facebook videos or Dailymotions to be viable alternatives.

 

Youtube no longer send out email notification. The best you can do now, is simply click the "bell" on a creator's page. This will notify you, on youtube in the top Right corner on desktop, whenever they upload a new video (You will need to open Youtube to see the new videos notification)

[Lurick]

1 hour ago, TetraSky said:

For LTT content, the best alternative you can get is Floatplane.

For everything else... .... There's not much, unless you consider Facebook videos or Dailymotions to be viable alternatives.

 

Youtube no longer send out email notification. The best you can do now, is simply click the "bell" on a creator's page. This will notify you, on youtube in the top Right corner on desktop, whenever they upload a new video (You will need to open Youtube to see the new videos notification)

You can actually have it (in FF and Chrome) notify you outside of YouTube so you don't need the tab running youtube open all the time BUT you need your browser open to get the notification otherwise it will just notify you when you open it again.

[Mark Kaine]

Yes there is but you (prob) won't like it

Bilibili (also called "b channel")

and

Niconico

 

Both far better than yt but have slightly different content (which also helps making them better)

 

Floatplane isn't free as far I know and has only live content?

 

If so it might be an alternative for you, but it's not really the same as a conventional video hosting platform (imo)

[Guest]

vimeo. Not that popular & costs money to upload more than a certain amount of data

[SansVarnic]

7 hours ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

yotube remover email notifs. LMG does have floatplane, nut its not technically a LMG thing.

Floatplane and LMG are sister companies. They are separate for legal and financial reasons.

Linus and Luke Started it but Luke Runs it.

[WkdPaul]

LTT has a bilibili channel ;

 

https://space.bilibili.com/12434430/

[Spotty]

5 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

Floatplane isn't free as far I know and has only live content?

No. Floatplane has on demand videos. For LTT it even gets them earlier than YouTube.

[wall03]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snA4KjE9qcE

 

gatta put this here

[Mark Kaine]

2 minutes ago, Spotty said:

No. Floatplane has on demand videos. For LTT it even gets them earlier than YouTube.

Oh ok I read that somewhere and didn't think only live content would really work lol...

 

 

[Mark Kaine]

7 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

LTT has a bilibili channel ;

 

https://space.bilibili.com/12434430/

Nice! I have an account but I haven't managed to unlock uploads yet... Those questions in only chinese and the time limit scare me haha... Idk if it's still like that, but I think it is. Lv0 forever ~

[Andreas Lilja]

How is YouTube dying?

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

2 minutes ago, Andreas Lilja said:

How is YouTube dying?

People have been saying that for years. 

 

On a side note, who still remembers Vimeo?

[Andreas Lilja]

Just now, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

People have been saying that for years. 

 

On a side note, who still remembers Vimeo?

Idk bro I get my mpegs from Limewire.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Just now, Andreas Lilja said:

Idk bro I get my mpegs from Limewire.

Got a link to that time machine you have there?

[Video Beagle]

10 hours ago, SansVarnic said:

Floatplane and LMG are sister companies. They are separate for legal and financial reasons.

Linus and Luke Started it but Luke Runs it.

And Linus owns it... something he kind of glosses over with the term "sister companies" They might be sisters, but he's the daddy.

[Video Beagle]

5 hours ago, Andreas Lilja said:

How is YouTube dying?

Cuz OP doesn't know how it works, I guess.

[Kopaka]

Don't be a slave to notifications. Just go directly to the channel page once a day or something to check for new videos >> https://www.youtube.com/c/LinusTechTips/videos

[LPChip]

I currently use my phone with notifications turned on in order to save videos to my Watch Later playlist, so that I can watch those videos in one go from my tv without touching anything.

 

But I'm now simply missing notifications due to the sheer amount of channels I'm subscribed to. I'm pretty sure I'm missing lots of LTT, SC, etc videos because of this.

 

Also, I got a message from youtube that they're going to do things with playlists and that certain features are going to be removed in the near future, but they did not specify what is going to be removed.

 

So if the Watch Later is going to be removed, Youtube is dead to me. Good to see that Floatplane exists. I'll probably switch to that then.

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

LMG also has dailymotion 

[Drama Lama]

23 hours ago, LPChip said:

Does Linus Media Group have a youtube alternative?

 

Yes it’s called floatplane 

but it‘s not for free

https://www.floatplane.com/discover

[LPChip]

Floatplane looks interesting. Is a subscription only for one channel or for all channels? And are the other Linus Media Group channels also on there? I only see a Linus Tech Tips, not a Tech Quicky etc...