https://www.geeksmint.com/youtube-alternatives/

With youtube blocking adblockers, maybe it’s time to look into alternatives and start migrating videos there as well. Any viable Fediverse alternatives that’s mature enough to contend with youtube?

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[–] Ohthereyouare@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If anyone actually knows how video within the Fediverse works, please share..

I've been trying to figure out and I'm struggling.

There's @peertube, @owncast, @tilvids

But, for the life of me, I cannot figure out how it works

[–] phil299@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This by no means a expert explanation. But as I understand it peertube and owncast are video sharing sites that operate much like lemmy but for video. So people start platforms ( like a instance on lemmy ) and then other people can join said platform and watch the videos , however like lemmy you can watch videos across all platforms ( I assume much like lemmy as long as the platform admins allow ). Both peertube and owncast say they are Fediverse projects and as such it should be possible to access the videos on other fediverse enabled applications although not sure how well this in implemented.

info

peertube specific info

I have to say as youtube alternatives I think they fit the bill best as it is free to watch , open source and quite an elegant solution , clearly early days but none the worse for that imo

Under the hood I believe it is a distributed load system ( a bit like the BBC's Iplayer ) but that is beyond my pay grade.

EDIT

BTW peertube = youtube alterative owncast = twitch alternative tilvids = peertube platform

[–] Ohthereyouare@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is a good explanation I think. Unfortunately, it seems to be exactly the way I understood it before I asked.

It still doesn't quite make sense.

How do I find other @peertube platforms? Is there a directory? When I try to sub to a channel, I'm prompted to download a messaging app?

It just isn't intuitive. I'm a pretty tech savvy fella. I've now watched 3 videos on the topic, read the welcome guides, visited all the profiles looking for answers. But... I come up blank.

[–] notavote@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Peertube is youtube like federated software, while owncast is something like twitch I think. Like lemmy and kbin, while https://tilvids.com/ is one instance of peertube, but it's owner is really trying to bring high quality content over there. You can get a feeling of what are they trying to make be reading their blog: https://blog.tilvids.com/ it is really something that makse me optimistic.