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[–]SierraKiloBravo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (16 children)

In the last week or so I have resurrected by BitChute channel. I too feel like a purge is coming

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (15 children)

I have 3 huge issues with BitChute: 1) slow site 2) webtorrent never works 3) no download button. If they fixed the webtorrent issue then the other 2 wouldn't matter.

[–]SierraKiloBravo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yep, the site still needs a lot of work to become a viable contender against YT. Like Dave said in that vid, there are only two people running BitCute - I wasn't aware of that!

Kinda reminds me of SaidIt; slowly growing, little changes and improvements here and there, on its way to great things

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

One other thing I'd like to see, and not exclusively on BitChute...

AdSense dominates online advertising. There are many smaller competitors. I'd like to see an ethical and freedom embracing alternative ad-service emerge with relevant well targeted ads.

Well targeted means not advertising feminine products to middle aged men, etc. Better still, advertising to niche audiences for maximum effect. For example, a Goth fashion brand would be wasting advertising to general audiences - yet YouTube insists on keeping it general (for maximum centralized power).

[–]SierraKiloBravo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Agree. There is something inherently borked with it, yes.

I like how on BitChute there is a tip button and channels can nominate one or more ways that viewers can throw them a dollar if they enjoyed something. I think the value-for-value model is good.

Would be good if YT did something like that.

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes. For sure.

One and a half more thing/s occurred to me...

Another way BitChute could share the load, in addition to actually fixing their WebTorrent, would be embracing IPFS to confirm valid files that would not necessarily need to be shared via WebTorrent. The other half is that this is just simply more decentralization - and if BitChute were to embrace decentralization I'm quite sure it would lighten their load and get more support, both financially and with the code - if they were to lead the way. Honestly I don't understand any new platforms portending to be free that don't embrace decentralization to the max. (Open source is another important matter altogether entangled in "intellectual property".)

[–]whistlepig 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

I do miss the download button that use to be there... but it rarely worked back then. Besides, youtube-dl works really well with bitchute links.

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

YouTube-DLG (with GUI) works for 98% of video sites, for videos, playlists and channels - including some tough ones like Reddit.

[–]whistlepig 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

youtube-DLG is just a gui front end for youtube-dl

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

I take you like the code version for some reason? I've never tried it. Don't even know how to image using it. I like my simple GUIs, though I have a big list of requests/improvements I'd love to see. I need to finish it and finally share it with them.

[–]whistlepig 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Those options you may be looking for may be in the terminal version. Typically gui's only include the more basic options.

I can tell you for sure that youtube-dl's help page is quite a long read. It has a lot of functionality.

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Good to know! I should read it before submitting my list. I need to get my Notepad++ working properly again first, then find it.

IMO, ideally, any good GUI should have basic, advanced, and expert modes to meet the variety of user types. Few even have basic and advanced. For the most part I'd hang in the middle.

Here's one of the worst things: When it closes (for whatever reason(s)), you forever lose the cue list of videos not yet downloaded. I'd like to see it reopen with the list-in-progress intact. I'd also like to set up multiple sorting filters to multiple directories. The GUI only does one folder at a time.

Beyond that the whole interface needs an overhaul to be pragmatic, ergonomic, and conform to typically established interfaces. It's actually peculiar in many ways. Now knowing those ways I know how to use it and its limits, but there shouldn't be that much of a learning curve. Also, there's absolutely no use of colour which can indicate a LOT of things.

[–]whistlepig 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

IMO, ideally, any good GUI should have basic, advanced, and expert modes to meet the variety of user types.

True... but that is a lot more work to program. You want to add more functionality to a command line program, you just add it. You don't normally have to re-code other parts that often. And lets face it.. the expert user is going to use the command line version. Its easier to call that functionality that way (if you know how).

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I agree. But for non-specialized, well-known, common things like browsers, text editing, image editing, playback, etc. it should be extremely doable and I'd warrant popular.

I OFTEN think Silicon Valley's agenda is to intentionally dumb down the plebs - much like the schools and media are meant to.

It's time for me to quit procrastinating and return to Linux full time after 22 years.