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LBRY is a neat idea, but all the wacko extremists that managed to somehow get kicked off YouTube have taken it over and scared off most of the sane people. There are some good tech videos that still get mirrored there, but overall it's not a good experience.

Peertube seems like an even better idea, but so far it's catching on even less. Maybe someday it will get popular enough to be great, but for now it's kind of just not very useful. The big thing it's missing that I think is stopping it from catching on is an effective way of finding videos you might be interested in, especially from smaller instances.

Odysee has a cooler interface, Peertube has cooler federation and webtorrent tech. LBRY does have some wacky cryptocurrency that you don't need to use, and Peertube is part of the Fediverse so I can subscribe to Peertube channels from my Lemmy instance (I think, but comments and upvotes don't seem to federate). Peertube is better I think but it doesn't have that good of a search and stuff, and really anything is better than Youtube at this point.

Lbry is a home for many antisemitic ideas. I like the concept but I find many of the videos offensive.

Peertube offers more promising results but it is much smaller so there is less content.

I’ve hacked about with peertube a bit for work and it seems pretty polished. From a dev perspective it has a really good plugin architecture that makes tweaking an instance pretty easy.

Personally, I'd prefer peertube, but federation is hard so lbry or odysee got more traction.

Ownstream, for streaming

Edit: meant owncast

Are there any good instances of PeerTube anyone can recommend? I have seen a few but in terms of English language content it seems very sparse.

Can't tell you about PeerTube but in favor of LBRY (Odysee) there is an extension which automatically redirects you to Odysee if that video is on that site.

@ndr
Hard question. I think if I was a content creator I would upload my content to both.