I came across this Youtube alternative and thought I at least share this consider the ever increasing censorship that is happening on our big platforms such as Youtube, Twitter, Facebook etc.
BitChute is a peer to peer video sharing platform. Its mission is to put people and free speech first. It's free to join and create and upload your own videos to share with others.
Here is an excerpt from the FAQ page at https://bitchute.com/faq
"How did this idea come about?
Throughout 2015 and 2016 several prominent YouTubers reported a loss of video monetization when covering certain topics or for having particular opinions. YouTube claimed this was due to tighter enforcement of existing rules, even if true this will restrict the type of content that gets made and is a form of censorship.
Here we believe people should be able to express their opinions and choose their topics. If existing services cannot allow that, then let's make some that will. The question is, how to disrupt a platform as well established as YouTube? It cannot be on their terms; we think we might have an answer, decentralization by torrents and tailored matchups for monetization. *More on the monetization to come soon.
Rather than needing massive data centers with humongous bandwidth costs, torrents depend on many people sharing videos from their home computers. While this has been possible for many years through bit torrent, bit torrent applications have steep learning curves; this site aims to make the torrent experience seamless by working entirely in the web browser.
How is this torrent greatness even possible?
BitChute is powered by WebTorrent. WebTorrent is an independent project started by Feross Aboukhadijeh in October 2013 and is the first torrent client that works in the browser. YEP, THAT'S RIGHT. THE BROWSER.
I cannot overstate the importance of WebTorrent. The Internet is full of centralized monsters and WebTorrent is the magical sword we will use to slay them.
You can find out more about WebTorrent here: https://webtorrent.io/faq.
Can I host a torrent on my site?
Yes, the more the better. Otherwise, this project is just another YouTube wannabe. We will eventually have tools and tutorials to assist and encourage this. Torrents take on a life of their own and can operate independently of any web site that indexes them. Your website can be another index as we work towards a decentralized Internet.
Is the bit in BitChute because of BitCoin?
Not really, we will probably integrate the blockchain and bitcoin in some way but the 'Bit' is in honour of BitTorrent. Unlike Youtube this is a p2p network, you can host content as well as watch. I do plan to make a video to explain this a lot better."
I think this idea is awesome, especially if collaborated with bitcoin. #
Nice post. I would like to share another site that I use that is a YouTube alternative. It's called Dtube. It is a decentralized video platform that links to your steemit account. Here is my channel page on Dtube if you're interested: