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.
Even know I wish to see PeerTube grow especially with people at minimum cross-posting, without a way for instances to find content easily without having to know about the creator before hand discoverability will be shockingly bad. Along with this decentralised platforms need to get easier for people to create themselves, as most people who know a bit about computers still don’t know the first step of creating a PeerTube or other Fediverse Instance (I’d love to run my own Instances in the future).
PeerTube is a really great idea but without some way of people finding the content and or having more space to upload that content (As most PeerTube Instances have like a 5GB limit) then it sadly won’t get there.
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!
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.
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 ^^
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.
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
So Lemmy as Video Support, Good to know.
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.
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.
I agree it might not be a good solution long-term.