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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What's Stopping you from using PeerTube? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 month ago by rosahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/peertube@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/peertube@piefed.blahaj.zone/p/999813/what-s-stopping-you-from-using-peertube

Or 'What is PeerTube lacking that you simply cannot do without?'

I believe it's a safe assumption that fediverse users want to move away from the monopolies and closed gardens so often associated with video streaming, and yet it's not a task that's ever been made easy. Maybe an ounce of inspiration is the cue we need, and so my question to you is; What's Stopping you from using PeerTube?

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[–] VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Hey, thanks for the thorough reply. TL;DR: I largely agree.

The limited selection you see on the hot page is basically all that’s released from the top 30% of all peertube channels (the one’s that federate with me, anyway). I know people are skeptical of any type of recommendation algorithm, I feel like as long as it’s not personalized it should be ok.

In my opinion giving the user the freedom to select how posts are sorted is key. Lemmy for example offers many options: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html#sorting-posts I for one would dislike a system where only the largest 30% of all peertube channels are recommended. I would prefer a system where the newest, most reacted to (relation to other posts of that user) are recommended. But this will differ on a user basis.

Just the largest 30% makes it impossible to discover cool new channels.

I am also not against recommendation. I am even fine with personalized recommendations as long as it is optional.

I will definitely take a look at your instance!