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Peertube is an open, federated alternative to Youtube without advertising or tracking. On this site, you can find a good Peertube instance, with good rules, good moderation and most importantly a friendly community.
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SimpleerTube kinda sucks in terms of UI. If I want to browse peertube without JS I'm more likely to use a desktop client like peertube-viewer or cuttlefish, which are a lot lighter than a web browser, even without JS, and much better looking than SimpleerTube (which could look quite good if some work went into its looks IMO).
Ideally there should be a desktop client that is capable of using webtorrent for viewing, then keeping the videos on disk and continuing seeding them. That way, it would make webtorrent much much more useful, because you could start to have a lot more long term seeders. For the moment, webtorrent only makes sense in the livestreams.
Yes I agree completely with you. I'm looking forward to Cuttlefish as that seems like the direction they are going.