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Cross-posted from "If you could improve PeerTube, what would you improve?" by @[email protected] in [email protected]


What keeps you away from PeerTube? What features does PeerTube lack? If you were the developer of PeerTube, how would you improve it?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Unskippable one-hour long ads. 👌

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So many things:

  • A closed caption system like youtube. I’m deaf so 90% of peertube videos are just unwatchable to me.
  • A working mobile app.
  • An easy guide to instances that is clear on which instances are mainly local vids and which basically federate with everything. Ideally, a couple, lemmy.world, lemm.ee style peertube instances that are general purpose and kind of have everything I can direct people who want to join too.
  • A non-personalised algorithm. Ie. recommend similar high rated videos.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Multiple audio tracks for different languages.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Automatic subtitles. I know... Not the easiest functionality to develop but I do miss it from Youtube.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

VLC is adding AI generated subtitles, I wonder if it would be possible to co-opt that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That would be nice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Better algorithm and a better incentive to post content (im not sure what, maybe donations)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Improve cross instance search and for more creators to move from other platforms

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Admins are able to add external search engines. Most use sepia search and it pretty much covers all the non-sketchy stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I thought about uploading videos, but I could never figure out how.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It's mainly finding videos for me. I've been able to find a few interesting ones, but largely it's either difficult to find, or not there at all. I myself have actually been considering making some videos to help the content drought, but then the ideas, or knowledge of what people could be receptive to doesn't quite come.

also as a newpipe user, being able to search all of my selected instances at once, or with sepiasearch could be nice, but thats not up to peertube

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Better federation and search. Make it easier for content creators and instance runners to monetize. Make it easier to script your own feed/recommendations.

All of the above is true for all software on the fediverse. But monetization especially for PeerTube. Pay to watch, donations and ads should all be options in the official implementation. Because of the high cost of running a large high bandwidth instance (if that wasn't obvious).

Seems like the only ones who really benefit from PeerTube right now are right-wing extremists. The only large Swedish instances are far-right. And they are big because of content supply and demand.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Better federation with eachother, a way for monetisation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Is the P2P component what makes or breaks this platform? It sounds like this is key to its success.

Are PT hosts also part of the P2P network? I could see hosting costs increase dramatically as a result of hosting popular content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I tried to sign up for an account, I was going to use it to create long form content, so I picked some tags (which definitely leave out too many broad categories to be particularly useful, and is thus incredibly limiting) that seemed somewhat related to what I wanted to do.

I then looked through the instance list based on those tags, and tried to find one that fit.. and I couldn’t, because all of them had some caveat or blurb or whatever that made me go “nope, probably not here..”

The problem is that I had to click through multiple pages to hit those caveats in the instance rules/description during the signup process, and I had to do it for every one I wanted to check out. They weren’t at all listed on the main page, and they probably should be, maybe under a popup tooltip sort of button. As it stands it was a huge waste of time, and I gave up, and lost interest in having a channel. Maybe I’ll browse it if it ever picks up, but frankly the process of signing up to be a content creator is far too onerous.

Maybe that’s a problem with the instance owners and how they have things set up, maybe with the way the whole platform works, I don’t really know. It was pretty consistent though, so I assume it’s a platform problem.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some kind of Monetary-support system

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe Liberapay built-in? I’m sure a plugin could fix that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wish there was a libre one-time payment software

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Liberapay is centralized but it is open source.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

But it uses Stripe & Paypal

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