Peertube

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A free software to take back control of your videos

Peertube is an open, federated alternative to Youtube without advertising or tracking. On this site, you can find a good Peertube instance, with good rules, good moderation and most importantly a friendly community.

https://joinpeertube.org/

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We should seriously start to promote a PeerTube migration everywhere (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know, the platform isn't ready, the platform needs more creators, the platform has technical improvements to do...We could have said the same for Lemmy before the Reddit blackout, the same for Mastodon on Twitter.

The main limitation I see at the moment are PeerTube instances, badly communicating, from what I've been able to realize, and there are no reference instances as it was for Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm a(n extremely) small time streamer but with decades of content (plus more as I stream on both PeerTube and Twitch) that I'm slowly moving over to my own self-hosted PeerTube instance. I can't say I expected any views at all, but what I have gotten so far is just a lot of bot spam comments. I can't imagine that's something most creators want to deal with.

Is the problem that I'm self-hosting and having to moderate that on my own? Probably. But it doesn't paint a great picture of the platform at large so far.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

YouTube has an ace up its sleeve:

It shares revenue 50-50 (roughly) with creators. And considering the server costs and promotional benefit, that 50% cut is very fairly priced.

Facebook, Twitter/X, Reddit, etc. never shared revenue with creators. And that makes them easily replaceable. But Google wisely made YouTube and video creators financially reliant on one another. And that makes it difficult for something like PeerTube to pop up in a way Mastadon has.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

The thing about peertube is that the instances feel very separated compared to lemmy. When I goto all on lemmy I can see all except a small handful of instances. But on peertube I can barely see anything