peertube worked fine the few times I tried it, it's not in my mind when I want to see videos but I have to say it never felt a disappointment.. pretty neat for such an effort
Getting started with PeerTube
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Re: Getting started with PeerTube
#22OK. So PeerTube doesn't actually host anything, right? You need a streaming server to publish. Maybe someone will let you have space and bandwidth on theirs. PeerTube is just the lookup system. Is that right?
Nope.
Peertube is just the software. The linked has no lookup system, it's just a site telling you about the software, linking to sourcecode & documentation, and linking to other sites that host that software.
The primary instance references on the site (i.e. the streaming server that they embed their own videos from) is https://framatube.org/
Re: Getting started with PeerTube
#23OK. So PeerTube doesn't actually host anything, right? You need a streaming server to publish. Maybe someone will let you have space and bandwidth on theirs. PeerTube is just the lookup system. Is that right?
It's using torrents through WebSockets, it would be nice if the regular torrent protocol supported them. You just need to download a torrent to stream, or be one of the peers viewing to stream it to other viewers.
See:
Re: Getting started with PeerTube
#24I doubt YouTube would ever have been successful if it had required this level of explanation.
This website isn't a service, it's the website for a piece of software you can download and host yourself. So it's not really comparable to Youtube. Explanation/documentation is normal for that kind of site.
If you want the equivalent to Youtube, take a look at something like https://framatube.org/
Re: Getting started with PeerTube
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Content creators on PeerTube could do in-video product endorsements.. that's already a fairly standard practice on YouTube, which does support monetization.
Sponsorships are only one form of monetization. The competitive feature for content creators here is ad revenue sharing. The only thing I got from reading this write up is that it will be pretty easy for someone to create their own instance and throw ads on someone else's content.
It seems like for many creators on youtube the ad revenue sharing is no longer a notable source of their income.
Re: Getting started with PeerTube
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
The fact that there is an entire Medium article on how to "get started" essentially guarantees it's a non starter.
The presence of a Medium article is not a reliable indicator of anything (except there being someone writing Medium articles about it). Case in point: "Recipe: Medium-Boiled Eggs" https://medium.com/@corey_nelson/recipe-medium-boiled-eggs-7...
See, that's why medium-boiled eggs have never caught on.
;D
Re: Getting started with PeerTube
#27I doubt YouTube would ever have been successful if it had required this level of explanation.
Half of the explanation here consists of explaining the very-slightly-different-but-still-entirely-natural ontology of PeerTube, to people who were expecting exactly the ontology of YouTube. For someone who has never used YouTube as a content creator, a "Getting Started" guide for PeerTube would actually be quite short.
I'm not sure what exact word you're looking for, but it's not ontology
Re: Getting started with PeerTube
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Half of the explanation here consists of explaining the very-slightly-different-but-still-entirely-natural ontology of PeerTube, to people who were expecting exactly the ontology of YouTube. For someone who has never used YouTube as a content creator, a "Getting Started" guide for PeerTube would actually be quite short.
I'm not sure what exact word you're looking for, but it's not ontology
In trying to figure out what word you were looking for, I realized the word his migrated from philosophy to computer science and changed meaning a bit. So maybe it works in that context. Sorry.
Re: Getting started with PeerTube
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure what exact word you're looking for, but it's not ontology
In trying to figure out what word you were looking for, I realized the word his migrated from philosophy to computer science and changed meaning a bit. So maybe it works in that context. Sorry.
A very cromulent explaination. Thank you.
Re: Getting started with PeerTube
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Half of the explanation here consists of explaining the very-slightly-different-but-still-entirely-natural ontology of PeerTube, to people who were expecting exactly the ontology of YouTube. For someone who has never used YouTube as a content creator, a "Getting Started" guide for PeerTube would actually be quite short.
I'm not sure what exact word you're looking for, but it's not ontology
lets go with the Ux concept of "Mental Model"