Nebula

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Every quote

The 40 most detailed of 92 comments. Each links to the original.

1. Nebula has no comments section. I find this to be a big indicator that it is built to enable creators to deliver good videos to their fans

   Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children”

2. Having a presence on a creative collective platform like Nebula affords a great deal more autonomy here

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Tom Scott is back on YouTube [video]”

3. Nebula is actually quite a decent alternative/supplement to YouTube and worth the subscription IMHO.

   Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Google Public CA is down”

4. I've been subscribed to Nebula for a couple years, as I watch a lot of video essayists on Youtube

   Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Nebula Sans”

5. I use it enough that they're probably paying out more to creators than they're getting from me.

   Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook”

6. There's a lot of great stuff on there, and lately I have been watching it more than YouTube.

   Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery”

7. Nebula straight up doesn't have entire genres, or videos in languages other than English

   Mixed · Jun 2026 · in “Tidal AI Policy”

8. I ended up culling my streaming down to just Dropout, Nebula, severely modified Youtube

   Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid”

9. I like Nebula's curated content better than the ai-slop/clickbait slop Youtube provides

   Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Nebula Sans”

10. it's just a bunch of high-quality videos and channels that I can watch with no fuss

    Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Nebula Sans”

11. Lots of excellent legal analysis, history, logistics, engineering content there.

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Google Public CA is down”

12. properly allows me to pay the people who's content and reporting and art I like

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams”

13. My only complaint is the bad buffering on the TV versions of the Nebula app.

    Mixed · Aug 2026 · in “Nebula Sans”

14. Nebula as a premium service seems to be the best in terms of paying creators

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow”

15. where most (albeit not “all”) of the YouTube creators I follow can be found

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups”

16. I also pay for Nebula. I wish more content creators moved to that platform.

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they'll be unskippable”

17. Nebula is an exclusive invite only platform where no creators outside of English mains and hard left ones are present.

    Criticizes · Feb 2026 · in “NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed”

18. I just never end up opening the Nebula app, which I honestly find harder to use than the Youtube app.

    Criticizes · Aug 2026 · in “Nebula Sans”

19. Nebula is a narrow thing for a narrow audience that likes one specific type of online video.

    Criticizes · Aug 2026 · in “Nebula Sans”

20. Nebula is an invite-only clique and they invite people who look like them.

    Criticizes · Aug 2026 · in “Nebula Sans”

21. The reason PeerTube and Nebula are important is it provides the potential for a true alternative destination for people looking for videos.

    Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform”

22. the videos are still the same YouTube videos that are first and foremost built to satisfy the algorithm

    Mixed · Aug 2026 · in “Nebula Sans”

23. I haven't had any issues like that, the quality of the videos is the same I get in the YouTube app.

    Mixed · Aug 2026 · in “Nebula Sans”

24. stream content from independent content providers like Dropout and Nebula using their web-based UI

    Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “Fox to Buy Roku Streaming Service in $22B Deal”

25. Something like Wireguard or Nebula only needs a few (maybe just one) publicly accessible address.

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Running Your Own As: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing”

26. neither of which have the VC backing to light piles of money on fire just to sustain a user base

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams”

27. There is also nebula and curiosity stream... Both solid good services with <1% conversion rates.

    Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “XCancel service is suspended until further notice”

28. Previously I was using tmux and mosh and Nebula, and that worked really great for reconnecting

    Mixed · Mar 2026 · in “Ghostty – Terminal Emulator”

29. Considering how cheap it is I'm happy if I only find one or two videos a week worth watching.

    Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Nebula Sans”

30. Support platforms, like nebula and whatever that guntube service is called, with real money.

    Recommends · Dec 2025 · in “NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut”

31. Nebula, another Go peer-to-peer project encourages peers to run their own rendezvous server

    Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane”

32. it's remarkable how freeing it feels to me to use a service where that isn't a concern

    Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Nebula Sans”

33. they don't have an Xbox app which is where I watch almost all my TV/Youtube/streaming

    Mixed · Aug 2026 · in “Nebula Sans”

34. the algorithm was actually quite good at surfacing content that I learned a lot from

    Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Nebula Sans”

35. The problem is that ad-blocking makes youtube the best value proposition for users.

    Mixed · Aug 2026 · in “Nebula Sans”

36. I personally appreciate getting to use the simple core of Nebula as open source.

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Netbird a German Tailscale alternative (P2P WireGuard-based overlay network)”

37. I really liked it. I like the idea of embedding firewall rules in a certificate.

    Mixed · Oct 2026 · in “Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update”

38. Nebula is missing discovery, also comments, also the network effect of course.

    Mixed · Nov 2025 · in “Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams”

39. I don't know why it doesn't get mentioned more as an overlay network option.

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Netbird a German Tailscale alternative (P2P WireGuard-based overlay network)”

40. Not being home is not an issue for accessing stuff at home in the slightest

    Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin”