PeerTube, the “Decentralized YouTube”, succeeds in crowdfunding
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#2What the people who want decentralized services don't realize is that the content creators want centralized services (whether they realize it or not).
In the old days we needed YouTube because you needed a Flash encoder if you wanted to make video accessible on the web to everyone. Now anyone can host video on anything. You can throw even throw some comments on the bottom if you want.
But what those who create want is an audience. They want a community. There is a cycle of drama on YouTube that everyone feeds off of. Hell, some of the most popular videos people make are videos of people complaining about YouTube. Make a normal video, get a few thousand views. Make a rage video about how your normal video got demonized, get a million views.
How many attempts at decentralized social networks have failed? All of them.
Re: PeerTube, the “Decentralized YouTube”, succeeds in crowdfunding
#3What happened to the Decentralized Facebook that everyone was so excited about a few years ago?
Re: PeerTube, the “Decentralized YouTube”, succeeds in crowdfunding
#4What the people who want decentralized services don't realize is that the content creators want centralized services (whether they realize it or not). In the old days we needed YouTube because you needed a Flash encoder if you wanted to make video accessible on the web to everyone. Now anyone can host video on anything. You can throw even throw some comments on the bottom if you want. But what those who create want i…
Mastodon is going pretty well. I greatly enjoy using it and the conversations I have there.
Re: PeerTube, the “Decentralized YouTube”, succeeds in crowdfunding
#5What the people who want decentralized services don't realize is that the content creators want centralized services (whether they realize it or not). In the old days we needed YouTube because you needed a Flash encoder if you wanted to make video accessible on the web to everyone. Now anyone can host video on anything. You can throw even throw some comments on the bottom if you want. But what those who create want i…
Mastodon is going pretty well. I greatly enjoy using it and the conversations I have there.
I've heard of it but didn't realize people really used it? How/where should people learn more about mastodon if they're interested? How do you use it?
Re: PeerTube, the “Decentralized YouTube”, succeeds in crowdfunding
#6What the people who want decentralized services don't realize is that the content creators want centralized services (whether they realize it or not). In the old days we needed YouTube because you needed a Flash encoder if you wanted to make video accessible on the web to everyone. Now anyone can host video on anything. You can throw even throw some comments on the bottom if you want. But what those who create want i…
This one I think has legs. Quite a few content creators are upset with YouTube policies, and can drive users to PeerTube using other social services. Once you have a core group of users, others see that it’s viable and adoption rises.
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#7What happened to the Decentralized Facebook that everyone was so excited about a few years ago?
"What happened" to it? You're LOOKING at it, right now!
PeerTube builds on top of the Mastodon / ActivityPub network, which is Decentralized Facebook.
In effect, this is showing the network effect of the new open-source / federated protocol. It can be extended to host videos over Bittorrent over WebRTC through the Web Browser (all port 80, no configuration, Javascript clients only), while publishing over the Mastodon / ActivityPub federation.
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I think there are some legitimate privacy issues with regards to Bittorrent over WebRTC (public publishing of IP Addresses and such), but as long as its a configurable flag that individual servers can turn off, then the federation can grow.
Re: PeerTube, the “Decentralized YouTube”, succeeds in crowdfunding
#8'decentralisation' should not be a design goal, or at least should not be advertised as one, because it is fundamentally unsustainable.
It is best understood as a transitional phase between centralized regimes, not an end in and of itself.
Re: PeerTube, the “Decentralized YouTube”, succeeds in crowdfunding
#9What the people who want decentralized services don't realize is that the content creators want centralized services (whether they realize it or not). In the old days we needed YouTube because you needed a Flash encoder if you wanted to make video accessible on the web to everyone. Now anyone can host video on anything. You can throw even throw some comments on the bottom if you want. But what those who create want i…
I think getting viewers wouldn't be a problem since videos are shareable and searchable in the all the ActivityPub networks.
Re: PeerTube, the “Decentralized YouTube”, succeeds in crowdfunding
#10What the people who want decentralized services don't realize is that the content creators want centralized services (whether they realize it or not). In the old days we needed YouTube because you needed a Flash encoder if you wanted to make video accessible on the web to everyone. Now anyone can host video on anything. You can throw even throw some comments on the bottom if you want. But what those who create want i…
How many centralized social networks have failed too? Most of them.
A lot of successful things have had similarities to previous failures. The first step is to actually try something new instead of sitting around nay-saying everything.
Personally my opinion Youtube can keep the the drama rage videos, or they can fall off the face of the internet. I just want educational videos and music without constant ads, and I don't want to create some entity with absolute power to censor content for the rest of the internet.