Websites to go on instead of YouTube for the boycott MASTERTHREAD

[EdgyRabbit]

I am personally joining the YT boycott, and I thought I'd make a thread so we can share some fun websites to go on instead of YouTube for the boycott!

archive.org This is an obvious choice, a lot of YT are archived on here. There is also the wayback machine, so you can surf the old web!

Spacehey A Myspace recreation! You can use HTML to customize your entire page!

Level 13 a text based adventure game! Have fun managing your resources!

Money simulator! A game where you manage your money!

PHD Simulator Get your PHD in this fun game!

Will you press the button? Self explaintory!


Feel free to share your own fun websites to spend time on instead of youtube!!

[bugfeli]

super useful! i dont have much to offer but whenever i have downtime during classes i'm on the good old wedsudoku.com its free and a really good way to pass the time 

[Oceansandy02]

Boatload Puzzles: A crossword puzzle online!

Ytoo: It is more of a search engine, but it shows a lot of links to fun sites like social media and virtual pets

Newgrounds: There are fun animations, games and art, as well as music posted on here. However, they are strict with what you can post, determined by the rating system.

musictheory.net: A resource for practicing music theory and learning music.

[Vidknight]

This is kind of a loaded question for me since usually when I don't want to use youtube. I just start web surfing, and finding random, cool things, but I feel I can still provide some answers here.

Comic Fury - A webcomic site, by artists, for artists to share their own webcomics, and ideas personally I really like New Sheep In Town right now, but there are basically a bottomless pit of comics on the site that I'm sure you can find one that suit your taste.

Marginalia Search Engine - This is my go to site for web surfing Just typing in a random word, and going through a bunch of links seeing what I can find. I found a good amount of stuff using this site. One such site I stumbled across was Randomhoohaas This is honestly a pretty cool site that is also incredibly old, and still being updated to this day.

Invidious - Slightly breaking the rules here since this is youtube, but it's a more privatized, and alternative to watching youtube. As much as I don't want to admit we're going to need youtube sooner, or later. Example for me I needed to learn how to make stylized toon like water in blender. I basically needed youtube to understand how I can do it, there was no other way. That is why I'm putting this here. Alternatively you could also download the videos using yt-dlp. Which I recommend more since sometime Invidious doesn't work.

That's all the sites I can contribute for right now. I mostly focused on site which has more to it instead of one specific thing, or a personal site.

[Blue]

I have somewhat specific recs since I spend my online time quite differently compared to a lot of other people it seems.

Pokefarm - raise your pokemon! get them into contests! shiny hunt! do a lot of stuff related to pokemon!!
Archive of our own - while it is a fanfiction site first and foremost, it also has a lot of original fiction to read. You can filter things to the tiniest bit too, so you'll find something to like.

[Yoylecake420]

Time to leave some here

MyRetroTVs - Hosts TVs from the 50s t0 the 2000s. I'm using My 50's TV.

Neopets Classic - A fan recreation of old Neopets from the early-mid 2000s. They've got plenty of retro colors.

Flight Rising - Collect and breed dragons to gather items and fight. My username on both Flight Rising and Neopets Classic are kevin2763.

Cookie Clicker - The classic web game

Cloudhiker - Discover a collection of websites

[Bede]

Love love love to see so many people participating in the boycott!! Here are my faves:

ihavenotv.com is a curated list of free documentaries! Lots of interesting stuff here!

I'd like to second archive.org, and specifically shine a light on the Mirrortube collection! Has almost a million archived YouTube videos in it alone! I suggest searching up your favorite creators (by using the term creator:"CreatorsUsername") rather than browsing it blindly, though. There's a lot of rather odd or uncomfortable stuff.

Itch.io has a lot of free or cheap indie games for you to play to your heart's content!

Yume Nikki Online lets you play multiplayer online Yume Nikki and Yume Nikki fangames, with no registration required.

If you use YouTube for mostly gaming-related content, Twitch is a good place to turn to!

noises.online is good for those who used YouTube for noises to fall asleep to! Very customizable.

Lastly, Preservetube is absolutely something worth looking into. Not only can you archive a YouTube video or YouTube channel with just the URL, but you can also search existing archives for a video this way, too. I do not know if this website gives YouTube traffic when it archives, so I'd recommend not using it for at least the first day of the boycott (August 13th), but, past that, giving YouTube one ping to save a video for you and others to watch as many times over as you'd like (thus preventing tons more traffic) is worth it, in my opinion. It's much easier to use and to navigate than the Internet Archive, so, if you're intimidated by archive.org, consider looking at this site.

If you're going past August 13th, and will continue the boycott until the AI is announced to have a rollback, please remember that this is a marathon, not a race! If you feel like you will be unable to stay away from YouTube, setting significant limits on how much you use it is great. I'm putting aside one hour per day to go on YouTube, past the 13th (when I usually spend around 8 hours a day listening to YouTube videos (yes, I know.)), and I will be exclusively using that time to archive videos for off-YouTube viewing.

Keep it up, y'all!

[GideonWilhelm]

Can't believe I haven't seen anyone mention Cool Math Games!  It's still alive and kicking and a massive kick in the nostalgia for me!  I've been obsessed with curveball 3D myself.  I still remember playing that game (or its flash predecessor) forever and a half ago.

I'm also still hunting around for hobby learning resources myself.  I've genuinely enjoyed learning Rust from the official language book, and there are some pretty good guides for the Godot game engine at the official documentation, which is surprisingly fun and interesting to read through in some places if you're nerdy enough!  If you don't wanna dive in the deep end but do wanna learn GDScript and make games, "Learn GDScript From Zero" is surprisingly effective, even if it is picky about giving the exact correct answer sometimes.

I may or may not be biased as programming is a big fascination point for me