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Peertube's moment might come soon (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by sexy_peach@feddit.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/5294605

Youtube, for so many years, was just too good. Yes, they changed the 5 star rating system to likes and dislikes and a few years later disabled dislikes altogether, but their algorithm mostly digs up interesting content and it just works for creators and viewers.

This might change soon. Their new strategy to disallow ad-blockers will frustrate a certain kind of viewer. Those who dislike surveillance and like open-source tech, those who use uBlock Origin and know why.

Just like a few years ago mastodon suddenly reached a certain kind of popularity, because twitter had their first big fuckup, maybe Peertube is next. It certainly is the most polished decentralized solution that doesn't use a blockchain. Creators or fans could easily host their own videos, fans can watch it, without ads.

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[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

without a way for instances to find content easily without having to know about the creator before hand discoverability will be shockingly bad.

Instances index videos from all instances that they follow. So if a big creator uploads to a server that's already "friends" with yours, it will show up!

[–] SamXavia@kbin.run 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what I'm saying, someone already has to follow, you are then relying on the other people on your instance. It's one of the downsides of the Fediverse in general but it's made even worse with Video as video takes up a lot of space making each instance has limitations on the users stopping them from releasing so many videos.

Like Imagine if someone like Casey Neistat was still releasing daily videos but they where limited due to the possible instance they where using it would suck as it would stop them from uploading there latest video. Hopefully this gets solved in the future with better storage solutions but still it costs a lot to host Video files and that's why most people go to YouTube over anywhere else ATM.

I would love to see PeerTube as well as other Fediverse Video platforms to grow, it's just quite hard for it to grow unless each instance has easily over 100GB per user that uploads.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s what I’m saying, someone already has to follow, you are then relying on the other people on your instance.

No it is a different system on peertube compared to lemmy and mastodon. The server admin has to "follow" a server and then all content from that server will be listed in search and the timelines.

I am not saying this is ideal though ^^

[–] SamXavia@kbin.run 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That sounds even worse, as the admin of PeerTube will have 100% control who they connect with and will have to know every instance in existence to be able to connect with the ones that the content that is good is on.

[–] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've always thought of PeerTube as a content delivery platform ala Plume for blogging. Consuming cross-platform content works much better from Lemmy, Friendica or Mastodon-type platforms.

PeerTube channels looks beautiful in Lemmy and once a user pulls a channel it shows up as a regular community

[–] SamXavia@kbin.run 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So Lemmy as Video Support, Good to know.

[–] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just subscribe to any PeerTube channel like you would a remote community, search for the channel/community URL and there you go.

IMO the interface is much better on Lemmy and the whole thing is more aligned with the Fedi mindset, one account subscribing to anything.

[–] SamXavia@kbin.run 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I use Mbin as of the moment and it can do most things just not Video ATM, Might have to check my lemmy account to see if I can actually watch content from PeerTube on there.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I agree it might not be a good solution long-term.