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PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting

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Re: PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting

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Post by worldofmatthew »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #7

Question about Peertube: Is it possible to personally view and verify each uploaded video, as the host/admin of the service? (time constraints aside) My concern is, that if I host a peertube instance and anyone uploads illegal stuff, I am going to hang for it. So perhaps I would like a Peetube instance just for my friends an me, where I can personally review each video, to not get into trouble. Basically doing the jo…

Governments are trying to make it harder for the average person to host a community, while claiming to hate big tech.....

Re: PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting

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Post by londons_explore »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #8
zelphirkalt wrote: post #7

Question about Peertube: Is it possible to personally view and verify each uploaded video, as the host/admin of the service? (time constraints aside) My concern is, that if I host a peertube instance and anyone uploads illegal stuff, I am going to hang for it. So perhaps I would like a Peetube instance just for my friends an me, where I can personally review each video, to not get into trouble. Basically doing the jo…

I thought that platforms were protected as long as they take down illegal content when they are informed about it?

In your country, maybe.

But in most places, that isn't the case. If there is something illegal on your server, you're going to be held responsible for it, especially if you don't have robust evidence of who else put it there (ie. a verified and accurate name and address of the uploader - something that illegal video uploaders rarely leave behind).

Re: PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting

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Post by nodja »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #7

Question about Peertube: Is it possible to personally view and verify each uploaded video, as the host/admin of the service? (time constraints aside) My concern is, that if I host a peertube instance and anyone uploads illegal stuff, I am going to hang for it. So perhaps I would like a Peetube instance just for my friends an me, where I can personally review each video, to not get into trouble. Basically doing the jo…

Yes, there's a global setting that will mark newly uploaded videos as blocked automatically, they'll show up in a special moderation area where you can decide what to do with the videos. You can also mark users as trusted in which their videos would bypass the automatic flagging.

Re: PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting

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Post by petronio »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #8
zelphirkalt wrote: post #7

Question about Peertube: Is it possible to personally view and verify each uploaded video, as the host/admin of the service? (time constraints aside) My concern is, that if I host a peertube instance and anyone uploads illegal stuff, I am going to hang for it. So perhaps I would like a Peetube instance just for my friends an me, where I can personally review each video, to not get into trouble. Basically doing the jo…

I thought that platforms were protected as long as they take down illegal content when they are informed about it?

Even if that's the case in your jurisdiction, you can spend a lot of time in jail and a lot of money on lawyers before a judge agrees with you. This is also the reason why it's not recommended to run tor exit nodes at home.

Re: PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting

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Post by viraptor »

londons_explore wrote: post #12
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought that platforms were protected as long as they take down illegal content when they are informed about it?

In your country, maybe. But in most places, that isn't the case. If there is something illegal on your server, you're going to be held responsible for it, especially if you don't have robust evidence of who else put it there (ie. a verified and accurate name and address of the uploader - something that illegal video uploaders rarely leave behind).

Even in the US, I would assume there's some practical threshold where you can't hide behind DMCA and say "I wasn't aware 100% of movies I store are copyrighted and I've acted on all requests so far".

Re: PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting

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Post by AstixAndBelix »

PeerTube is basically developed by a single guy and has solved the infrastructure problem that many organizations have when wanting to host videos. Any organization can now host VoDs and live events on their own server(s) without being bled to death by the hosting provider since the badwidth will be shared among the concurrent viewers.

This is such an underappreciated piece of technology that I hope many intitutions will adopt, at least as a backup against using the usual Youtube/Facebook/Vimeo/Twitter/Instagram as content hosts

Re: PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting

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Post by raybb »

I love the idea of PeerTube and often browse videos on tilvids (a fairly curated instance).

However, lately I've been wishing for a tool where lectures could be hosted that has nice searchable transcripts, allows people have have comments and discussion based on the time. Something kinda like Loom but more oriented around making lectures annotateable by students for referring to later.

Re: PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

sys42590 wrote: post #6

I truly like PeerTube as a technology, however I still haven't managed to build even a minimal stock of PeerTube based content creators I'd enjoy to follow. On Youtube it's easy, there's much more high quality content about any topic imaginable than I ever could watch in my limited time on this planet, but on PeerTube instances I haven't found anything that made me come back to that particular creator. So my question…

Why?

From your comment I get that you haven't checked into peertube in a while.

There is tilvids.com that is slowly becoming the premier high quality peertube instance that is taking baby steps into being an educational instance. They will gladly host any creator if they align with their goals.

Besides, if a cooking creator wants to roll their own instance, invite other cooking creators to join in, tilvids.com would gladly peer with them.

The point is, tilvids.com is showing how you can build a good community outside of YouTube. A good step

Re: PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting

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Post by AstixAndBelix »

raybb wrote: post #17

I love the idea of PeerTube and often browse videos on tilvids (a fairly curated instance). However, lately I've been wishing for a tool where lectures could be hosted that has nice searchable transcripts, allows people have have comments and discussion based on the time. Something kinda like Loom but more oriented around making lectures annotateable by students for referring to later.

Someone could write a server plugin that passes the video's audio through the latest Mozilla's STT language model to get the transcription with timestamps. The tools are already there, if you know how to make it happen you shouldn't wait for a single guy in France to reach feature parity with Google
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