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Re: Our plans for PeerTube v4

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Post by zakki »

analognoise wrote: post #112
sschueller wrote: post #96

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You are welcome to help. I have very little time but managed to get a working android client running and published: https://github.com/sschueller/peertube-android

Has this line of thinking ever actually convinced even one person? It's why FOSS can't make serious inroads in a lot of domains. Like 20 years ago I was convinced we'd all never be paying for Word, but here we are, 20 years later, still buying Word.

Maybe the one paying Word got eaten by a marketing team? There are free alternatives. It works for my needs though.

Re: Our plans for PeerTube v4

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Post by keithnz »

ralusek wrote: post #14
rosmax_1337 wrote: post #12

I am very hopeful for Peertube and their project, since I'm currently partaking in hosting a large video website for otherwise content too controversial for mainstream platforms like Youtube. (Political content if you were wondering, but I won't indulge what kind) This takes back control to creators in such a way that essentially only domain registrars will be able to dictate what content may stay alive on the intern…

> I won't indulge what kind There's only one kind considered too controversial for mainstream.

if you look through his twitter, you can see the kinds of things he promotes....

Re: Our plans for PeerTube v4

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Post by TulliusCicero »

remram wrote: post #91
aftbit wrote: post #86

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Wow only one developer working on PeerTube and not even full time. No way will that level of effort be able to challenge any of the incumbents.

How many people work on YouTube, Vimeo, ... the platforms themselves, as opposed to promotion, monetization algorithms, marketing, etc? PeerTube actually works really well, and as long as communities come together to help with support/promotion/... I don't see why it couldn't "challenge any of the incumbents" even with only one developer on staff.

At Youtube, there's gotta be hundreds of engineers.

Re: Our plans for PeerTube v4

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Post by imglorp »

rijoja wrote: post #124

Would it be possible to set up some form of CDN. I.e. a service where you could submit torrent links so that "peertubers" could pool their resources somehow, or if you would like to support certain user by making sure that they get the bandwidth? So I am thinking of nodes that wouldn't actually host the websites but rather only would accept bittorrent URIs and then seeding them. To make sure that the ecosystem doesn'…

D.tube is backed by IPFS which is similar to an ephemeral CDN in this context.

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Post by frEdmbx »

johnsolo1701 wrote: post #120
vorpalhex wrote: post #31

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You know, I've heard almost all white supremacists are using NTP these days too...

This is disingenuous. NTP is not a platform to spread destructive hate speech.

Pretenses used by the enemies of liberty. Violations of liberty are extremely destructive to all of humanity, whereas hatred is relatively minimally destructive mainly to those sick and/or foolish enough to take part in it.

Re: Our plans for PeerTube v4

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Post by busymom0 »

Mediterraneo10 wrote: post #108
raarts wrote: post #106

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So, 10 -20 years. Prices will have come down enough for every household to host ALL their own data in their router. And offer interested parties API access. And host distributed social platforms.

Running a server from your home violates the terms of service of many ISPs (they want you to upgrade to a more expensive business plan for that). I’m not sure that is going to change in 10–20 years. Nor do I think router storage space is going to get significantly larger in the next decade, at least not in terms of being able to host large videos.

It probably depends upon which ISP you have and how "big" or "small" they are. I know 3 families who run their own servers from the home internet plan. Though they use it mostly from small sites and not for anything big/commercial.

Re: Our plans for PeerTube v4

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Post by busymom0 »

lupire wrote: post #123
neverminder wrote: post #101

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2010-2015 was the golden age of YouTube. Adpocalypse effectively killed it as a neutral platform and now even mildly controversial videos get demonetized and/or removed. I therefore consider Peertube as essiantial as Wikipedia and Openstreetmap. I hope it becomes mainstream alternative to YouTube.

Does Wikipedia allow controversial content? It is fiercely editorially controlled, and proudly so.

Wikipedia often lets smears stay on their site - even if false and then locks down the page so the person isn't allowed to present their own side of story to defend themselves.

As for YouTube, similar example - There's a current trending HN thread on:

> YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerability

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26804977

Re: Our plans for PeerTube v4

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Post by xrd »

I was excited about seeing an alternative to YouTube. I'm getting more and more worried about the content YouTube shows to my kids. But I was so disappointed in the various peers i went to and the content there. Surely there is good content that doesn't rely on monetizing it as YouTube does.

I realize getting kids' content is going to take effort that requires funding somehow, but why aren't there good technical discussions posted on PeerTube? It seems like a great place for controversial opinions about tech, even if that isn't banned on YouTube.

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