I’m not in love with YouTube, and it only lets me upload a small number a day. Is there a good alternative?

Pick a Pixelfed instance and get them into the Fediverse at the same time

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I wish the people downvoting would explain why. I’m not familiar with pixelfed.

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Pixelfed is a fediverse alternative to Instagram.

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People are probably downvoting because Pixelfed is meant to be a community platform, not a file host. Using it to dump large files onto without ever expecting to engage in the community is using up somebody else’s resources selfishly, making Pixelfed a poor choice for your stated purposes.

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That makes sense, thank you. I’m not looking to take advantage of anyone.

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Does this keep them private, and accessible by URL to friends and family who don’t have accounts?

I assume if OP is sharing videos to friends and family they don’t want them public, and of course they won’t want all those friends and family to have to sign up for accounts just to be able to view them.

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You can upload something and mark it “unlisted” so that only those who have the URL (and obviously the admins) can see the videos.

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Telegram. Set up a Telegram group, upload the videos there. Have full control over who sees the videos.

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Don’t use Telegram.

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Why?

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Russian bots and disinformation, shady business practices, hosting on Tencent servers, etc.

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How does this work if the friends and family don’t use that particular instant messenger, or have a smartphone (don’t forget that many older people have simple phones or use them in simple ways, and a PC)?

Can they access the photos and videos with external links? If so, that sounds reasonable. Assuming OP is able to transfer the photos and videos to their phone for this too, I think telegram is just a phone application but I’m not entirely sure.

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Google photos. Google drive. OneDrive. Dropbox.

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Is Google drive free? I’ve avoided it because it seemed like it had a low free limit.

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15gb

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And you can bump that up to 200gb for a few bucks a month.

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I think it actually has the biggest free tier, except for mega which has 50GB I think

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Good list, but don’t forget Box.com

Also, I prefer Vimeo for personal videos. But they also have upload limits.

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You can share on Google photos (it does video too) and you can send it to people without accounts I think

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