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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

Sometimes, I think that peertube would work better as simply being a different section of a personal/private website. You know how some sites hosted their own videos back before youtube became "the only place to post videos"? Gametrailers, Machinima, ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, etc.

Federation helps with discovery, but not much beyond that, I think.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

A lot of people, despite using a federated reddit alternative, will think of any reason to discourage the use of peertube I've noticed. It doesn't need to REPLACE youtube, that's basically impossible. You can use Peertube WITH YouTube. "Does it do anything different than youtube?" You can control what gets deleted and what stays up. "That's the only thing? It needs to do more." You can livrestream with it, and why would it need to do more than youtube? It gives you fucking CONTROL back in your hands! This is all about putting the people, back in control of the internet! The p2p aspect of peertube makes this the best competitor a community has to these giant companies with their world burning server farms. Why is this so hard for people to not be fascinated with having an option you can run with old PC hardware?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 minutes ago

hey I don't have time to watch this so I'll ask here since you're arguing in favor of it: how is storage handled? is it a concern? wouldn't any reasonable amount of storage have the risk of being almost immediately run out of space if the instance is even modestly popular?

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

It gives you fucking CONTROL back in your hands! This is all about putting the people, back in control of the internet!

So do I2P, HyphaNet (formerly FreeNet) and ZeroNet. They're all P2P networks and can run on old hardware, with the drawback being that you can't access normal internet sites while connected to them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 minutes ago

that sounds less like "a drawback" and more like "fucking unusable"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

just peertube recommendation algorithm browser extension. Working pretty well and ik discovering channels that make/reupload well produced content

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

These apps need ulterior uses.

Most know Matrix as an alternative to Discord.

has it replaced Discord? No, and it isn't likely to, buuuut Matrix is still a swiss-army-knife for other chat protocols via bridges, so it has its own use beyond Discord.

It's still useful, even alone.

What problem does Peertube solve beyond not being Youtube?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

A place to keep your videos in case of YouTube taking it off their site.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Right now, this is the only use.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

It can also host your live streams, twitch has mandatory adds or something last time I checked after you gain a certain amount of viewers. If you multistream, you stream to twitch and inform them about your Peertube being add free.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 20 hours ago

What problem does Peertube solve beyond not being Youtube?

Content creators can be in total control of their content and the platform, while still being able to reach the wider audience on the Fediverse.

There’s also features such as being able to replace an already uploaded video and for some, they would be happy not having to play the “algorithm game”.

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