In contempo years, Google-owned video-sharing platform YouTube deleted and banned an array of cryptocurrency-related channels. The platform'due south policy has driven cryptocurrency enthusiasts to expect for decentralized alternatives to YouTube, which allow users to skirt censorship and even incentivize them with their own tokens.

In a YouTube video published on April 1, a aqueduct dubbed Bitcoin for Beginners reviewed some of the decentralized YouTube alternatives. When choosing the most relevant platforms, the channel host took into account their usability, track records and user interface every bit major criteria.

Amidst the about popular decentralized video sharing platforms, the author noted LBRY, Bitchute, BitTube, PeerTube and Dtube.

LBRY

LBRY has a customs-controlled blockchain protocol and enables users to mine library credits and transport them equally tips to various creators. However, information technology is not easy to find skillful content as the platform doesn't lay out popular or trending videos earlier you commencement following a channel.

BitTube

Launched in 2022, BitTube allows users to overpass censorship thanks to InterPlanetary File Arrangement (IPFS). BitTube appears to be more entertaining as it offers livestreams, games, groups, and other options. Moreover, the platform has a reward system, wherein it rewards creators and viewers based on the fourth dimension watched, and provides 2 privacy tokens.

Bitchute

Bitchute claims to utilise a peer-to-peer WebTorrent engineering science, still, the service still can delist content as information technology comes from their centralized servers. Too, most of the content is heavily political.

DTube

Another platform chosen DTube is built on IPFS and the STEEM blockchain and rewards its users with DTC tokens, which gives them an ad-free selection. The last platform mentioned, Peertube, was launched in 2022 and is based on the WebTorrent engineering science. Peertube features P2P video sharing.

In a bid to stand to Google for censoring cryptocurrency-related content beyond its platforms, the crypto customs started a petition in early March. The so-called #ForkGoogle memorandum accuses the tech giant of waging "campaigns of suppression against Bitcoin and blockchain manufacture for years."

#ForkGoogle calls for the crypto community to boycott Google'south services and drift to alternative decentralized platforms like blogging platform Steemit and open-source browser Brave.