What options?
Where can I find stuff about fixing my motorcycle? Oceanliners? Deep Space documentaries? Fixing dieselinjectors in my car etc?

Pretty sure you still have to be invited to join nebula.

Nebula's getting better and I spend more time there now than on YouTube. Happy that YouTube is working hard to encourage this transition.

I was paying for a whole family (premium). But I will not pay and send money to a fascist state. We've cancelled all our us based services.

Only thing I'm getring at the moment is waiting up to like 30s until the video starts, I'il take that over an ad that long any day.

Most of those things are better without videos anyways. So much wasted time to get to the point.

As for documentaries... Are good ones actually on YouTube?

I'll never go there. Paid is a no way situation.

Same. That ole "You seem to be using a proxy service" text served as a nice break

Must have been temporary. Pipepipe displayed a message saying ~"youtube has blocked this ip", but it's working now.

I never paid and have been using NewPipe for the past 6+ years.

Peertube has already delivered the sustainable model: creators host their own videos and viewers assist distribution.

one option

Dailymotion

(www.dailymotion.com)

hell of a lot less censorship, and better video quality there as well.

I forgot about dm. I used to watch dm way more than yt back in the day. Thanks for the reminder!

All they need that I see is missing, is a way to discover / search everyone from any instance. Like, a consolidated / federated search.

Seems like its already happening.

Yeah, for at least 6 months.

Not precisely what you're after but
https://sepiasearch.org/

Now you'll actually get a pop-up claiming "click here to find out why" in regards to the slowness.

So you prefer ad supported content?

Who pays for the servers? Because if even big platforms like Signal sometimes struggle to pay the bills, in part because they spend a lot on their servers, then it’ll be dozens of times worse with video hosting