Alt Forums

Forums of course are alternative platforms and I figured if there's going to be any forum host I talk about first it'll be the very one that hosts our forum! Forum Spark is my favorite free forum host. Some people might look at free forum hosts and think they're behind free self hosted platforms. This isn't the case with Forum Spark! If you're looking for a forum host that won't break the bank that comes with many amazing features and is constantly being updated look no further!

https://forumspark.net/

This is yet another video hosting platform. I never tried this one out before, I know people talk about it so it's not some obscure platform but it's certainly not as popular as Youtube is! Have you uploaded anything to Vimeo? Is it worth giving it a go? It's funny that it's older than Youtube, and yet it's not as popular.

I stumbled across another Reddit alternative just now called Otto.Talk. Looks like this one is Australia based since one of the top communities that people are subscribed to is a Australia based community. Though browsing through the community right now, it seems like people are just sharing links from external sites rather than having open conversations like you would on Reddit. Really odd, I'm not sure why I can't find threads created by members. If you want to check it out here's the link.

https://otto.talk/

Peertube is a decentralized video sharing platform that's part of the fediverse. You have to install your own instance if you want to create a channel, which might put off some people from trying it out. You'll also need to have a VPS rather than shared hosting to install it too. I've been wanting to try it out at some point, but I currently don't have the funds to get a VPS again. Have you ever messed around with Peertube?

https://joinpeertube.org/

I figured I would make a thread for Kick, even though it's pretty popular these days. It was also founded only a few years ago so it's crazy to see that it's popular. Anyways Kick is known to have lax moderation when compared to other streaming sites like Twitch. I'm sure this is why it's popular, people who were banned on Twitch probably ended up moving over to Kick. Do you use Kick?

https://kick.com/

I wonder how many people forgot this platform exists? It's been around for a long time now, in fact people used to be able to upload full episodes of shows since they were being flagged on Youtube. It's also only a month younger than Youtube, to think Dailymotion could have been what Youtube is now! Do you ever use Dailymotion?

https://www.dailymotion.com/us

This is another video hosting platform but this one is very limited. You can only upload a video that's between 1kb and 100mb and the video can't exceed 2 hours. I'm hoping they will eventually upgrade their servers so you can upload larger videos. One thing I like about Glomble is that you can customize the look of your channel, like you used to be able to do on Youtube! Here it is if you want to check it out. But seeing how the first video listed is "Test User" and the video length exceeds the current limit, there's a chance this could be increasing soon!

https://glomble.com/

https://vanillo.tv/

Some things I don't like of it is that it doesn't have a page to see recently uploaded content, the feed seems like it's always the same and IDK if it's me but for some reason the quality selector on the player is gone (IDK if they fixed that or what).

If you're looking for a Reddit clone, I highly recommend you check out Lemmy. You can also host your own Lemmy instance as well if you're interested in that. I was using Lemmy for a bit, but I haven't logged into my account in a bit. It's similar to forums so you'll have to join via a Lemmy instance, but once you do you get access to any other Lemmy instance.
https://join-lemmy.org/