Hey guys! Just started degoogle and its a fun experience! I’m found out that Nebula was made as a oficial alternative to Youtube made by creators against Youtube alghoritm. You guys think its a valid choice? I’m considering using it on GrayJay. What you guys think?
Define a valid alternative. As a consumer, is it a valid source for high quality, educational, and non-bigoted content? Yes. Is it a full replacement for YouTube? No. Primarily because Nebula is invite-only. You can’t just sign up for an account with Nebula and start posting content. You first have to have an account somewhere else (almost certainly YouTube.) Then once you get a good enough following, if you pass a vibe check, you can get invited to Nebula. It’s a “don’t call us, we’ll call you” situation.
There’s also less community engagement on Nebula. There’s no comment section under the videos. I can understand why they chose to not have comments. But from time to time I actually do like commenting on YouTube videos and often receive good replies, sometimes even from the video creators themselves.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Nebula. I’ve been a paid subscriber there for several years. It’s just not a one-to-one replacement for all aspects of YouTube. Like with any DeGoogling option, there are going to be some tradeoffs.
Yeah, i was considering those points :/ i heard about peertube, but those youtube alternatives(incluiding odysee) unfortunately suffers the same problem. No monetization means that there is not a real effort on editing/creating videos. There was a lot of cool channels that just dissapeared and stopped creating content.