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] 35 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] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This belongs to your instance settings. Is your instance following other instances/channels, how is search configured and so on.

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

So if I make my own instance then I can have it like lemmy where it automatically federates everything?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes.

In peertube you can setup your own search-instance (needs heavy ressources) an configure, which instances are searched. Or you can just configure your instance to use https://search.joinpeertube.org

You can set https://instances.joinpeertube.org to autofollow all this instances, or host your own instances-instance or just put in manually instances, you will follow.

Peertube is very mature in this things. Much better than every other fediverse-service.

But you have to know, there are so many propaganda/putin/trump/antivaxxer-instances out there, that you really have to curate your followings very well! That's the dark side of federation and selfhosting.

Peertube is an ActivityPub-Service. The same as Lemmy, Mastodon, Friendica, Pixelfed and so on. It federates the same way as every other AP-Service too. And you can follow an peertube-channel from Lemmy as well as from Peertube, Mastodon or friendica!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think you can browse external channels. There is a plugin for it though: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/1465

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

If you configure your instance to use search.joinpeertube.org as search-backend you find all on your instance, what you can find there.