Subscribed for two years now. I really like it!

• Nice nerdy content
• No ads
• No comment hellhole

And if you use one of the many promo codes from creators you get it for 15$ or so for a whole year. Give it a try for a month and check for yourself!

It’s like one big patreon for all the nice video makers! That lets you watch without sponsor segments but sometimes with extras.

Most of the content is available on Youtube, but many creators have some extra videos and/or release videos days to a week earlier on Nebula. The majority of the content is video essay style videos and educational stuff, if that isn’t your speed it might not be for you.

The app is easy to use and allows for downloading videos for offline playback. It also doesn’t have any pre/mid roll ads, and many creators don’t include baked in sponsor spots either.

The biggest drawback in my opinion is that they don’t support comments.

I’ve been really happy with it, see if you can get the nebula/curiosity stream bundle advertised by lots of different creators. For something like $20/yr it’s great value and also helps provide a bit of less variable income for the creators that use it!

I am a Nebula subscriber, and highly recommend it. 90% of the stuff that’s on Nebula is also on Youtube, but nebula doesn’t have the ads. There’s a bunch of creators who post Nebula first, an there’s a number of “Nebula Exclusives”, but by and by, if you look at who the creators are on Nebula (which you can do without signing in by following this link you’ll see names that you recognise, or can look up on YouTube to get an idea of what they are like. It does mostly focus on educational and scientific content, as far as I can tell. The exclusives are more content from the same creators.

I wouldn’t categorise Nebula as specifically more queer positive. It doesn’t have comments, which helps reduce the number of trolls, and a number of the creators are openly queer, the same way they are on YouTube. I suspect they have an internal code of conduct that specifically prohibits homophobia and transphobia, but if they have it’s not widely advertised.

You may have the impression it’s queer positive because recently Abigail Thorn put up a recording of their play The Prince on Nebula, and that has been widely publicised. I have watched it, and enjoyed it.

As an aside, Nebula’s main comments are on r/nebula. I wonder if they’re considering setting up a lemmy instance themselves.

I don’t know if Nebula is explicitly queer positive or there’s just less people, thus less jerks. My family signed up after watching a lot of creators on YT recommend it. So basically, we’re watching largely the same content but the creators get more money, we don’t have to sit through sponsored ads and we don’t have to sift through a bunch of terrible algorithm-based recommendations to get to the content we want to see.

I do wish it were easier to search for new content.

We did the bundle with curiosity stream and my kid loves a lot of those videos, too. It’s been worth it for us.

I like nebula! I’d give it a go if YouTube isn’t really doing it for you

Although, I would try to find some YouTube video with a nebula discount referral code. They’re everywhere. It’s cheap as it is, but getting a better deal is never a bad thing.

It’s paid only, right?