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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Why is peertube growth so sluggish? (feddit.org)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by sexy_peach@feddit.org to c/peertube@lemmy.ml

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I love the idea, but most servers only host a couple of videos, it's very hard to find enjoyable content on there and it's difficult to figure out which server could be a good server to make an account on...

I wouldn't mind a centralized aggregator of videos and maybe it could have a suggestions algorithm as well or whatever. Not that this would be ideal in the long term but it could help get the videos some views and make more content creators see this as a good alternative. It's not safe on youtube, people aren't even saying suicide anymore ffs

Edit: Even some renowned german media have their own peertube servers that they feed with high quality videos, but of course they have basically 0 views. (https://peertube.heise.de/, https://tube.taz.de/)

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[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I made some videos about a trip to Japan I took once, and I uploaded them to YouTube but because I'm an Open Source person I also tried to upload to PeerTube since they're all CC media. I think the one that was 20 minutes long failed to upload, so I didn't even try with my hour long ones.

I just decided it wasn't ready.

As much as YouTube isn't the friendliest company, I have to give them props at a technical level. I think a lot of people underestimate how hard it is to support something with so many huge files, at different levels of resolution, loading in a second, etc etc.

The only technical problems I have with YouTube are the things they intentionally are doing to try and mess with people.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Where did you try to upload? PeerTube (the software) is very mature and functions just fine.

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably just some dude's instance, I probably found it on a list or something of open nodes.

And I'm sure it runs fine, but does it handle long videos with low views?

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes.

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Great! In that case how do I find an instance that's accepting new users and large files?

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 month ago

Look at pinned post at !peertube@lemmy.wtf