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PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform

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Re: PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform

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Post by cosmic_cheese »

jesse_dot_id wrote: post #18

I like the idea of all of these federated services but why does the UX always feel like an afterthought when it is the most important factor for adoption?

Same reason why the Linux desktop often suffers on the UX/UX front: people naturally drawn to these projects tend to lean heavily technical, and highly technical circles have a bad habit of driving out less technical contributors through devaluation of their work and lack of agency within the project among other issues.

That sort of work also tends to be less well-compensated than that of SWEs which makes it more important to be paid for work (which most FOSS project cannot do).

Re: PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform

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Post by manusartifex123 »

pocksuppet wrote: post #9

PeerTube has some interesting technology with the P2P sharing between users who watch at the same time. But with these kind of projects I think there are unfortunately social factors that impact their success as well as technical factors. It's one thing to put a element on a HTML page (or implement video over webtorrent), it's quite another to make people actually watch it instead of their TikTok feed.

yeah video social media is way ahead with algorithms and content. I still think they need to exist and keep pushing for this idea

Re: PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform

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Post by karmakurtisaani »

CM30 wrote: post #15

It's a promising system, and I'd probably use it over a non-federated video hosting system if I wanted to run a video hosting site of some kind. Yet it's currently hard to find a real usecase for it, since neither the content you want nor audience is there on PeerTube at the moment. If you're interested in open source software or data privacy you might find something here or there, but topics like gaming, music, spor…

Lemmy is pretty ok actually. The lack of big user base is more of a feature than a bug.

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CM30 wrote: post #15

It's a promising system, and I'd probably use it over a non-federated video hosting system if I wanted to run a video hosting site of some kind. Yet it's currently hard to find a real usecase for it, since neither the content you want nor audience is there on PeerTube at the moment. If you're interested in open source software or data privacy you might find something here or there, but topics like gaming, music, spor…

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Re: PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform

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Post by organsnyder »

karmakurtisaani wrote: post #24
CM30 wrote: post #15

It's a promising system, and I'd probably use it over a non-federated video hosting system if I wanted to run a video hosting site of some kind. Yet it's currently hard to find a real usecase for it, since neither the content you want nor audience is there on PeerTube at the moment. If you're interested in open source software or data privacy you might find something here or there, but topics like gaming, music, spor…

Lemmy is pretty ok actually. The lack of big user base is more of a feature than a bug.

I've found the same with Mastadon. It has a pre-eternal-September feel to it.

Re: PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform

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Post by dewey »

hungryhobbit wrote: post #23

Stupid question: when people inevitably use this for pirate content, and the feds try to shut the service down ... what's the plan?

Someone is still hosting the content and paying for resources just like with every other service distributed or not so it doesn't really add anything new to the equation.
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