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Re: Getting started with PeerTube

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I doubt YouTube would ever have been successful if it had required this level of explanation.

Or the lack of anyway to monetize your content other than link to a method for accepting donations.

Most YouTubers now use Patreon, in-video ads, referral codes, etc.

Plenty of huge YouTubers don't use any YT ads at all.

Re: Getting started with PeerTube

#32
My guess is that none of these things (including things like Mastadon) will become very popular. Then, one day, Amazon will create an AWS instance for it, and popularity will skyrocket.

And no, I’m not being sarcastic. I love the idea, but can’t for the life of me think what it will take to make something like this truly popular. (Though I wish I could!)

Re: Getting started with PeerTube

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Earlier 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

paradigm

Re: Getting started with PeerTube

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post #32

My guess is that none of these things (including things like Mastadon) will become very popular. Then, one day, Amazon will create an AWS instance for it, and popularity will skyrocket. And no, I’m not being sarcastic. I love the idea, but can’t for the life of me think what it will take to make something like this truly popular. (Though I wish I could!)

I keep reading Mastadon in HN, but the real name is Mastodon. Where did you get "Mastadon" from ?

Re: Getting started with PeerTube

#35
I honestly think that article 11 and 13 will grow more decentralized options. Peertube is only federated, so it won't benefit as much as it could, but it will still help. If the platform is responsible for copyright, then it will definitely be easier to just burn that server and then spin up a new one. Just my 2 cents

Re: Getting started with PeerTube

#36
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

https://medium.com/@ouidapetru/perfect-hard-boiled-eggs-ba6c...

Re: Getting started with PeerTube

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I doubt YouTube would ever have been successful if it had required this level of explanation.

Or the lack of anyway to monetize your content other than link to a method for accepting donations.

The amount of money you make off youtube ads has fallen off a cliff, almost all big content makers rely on patreon these days.

Even for millions of views on a video its typically less than $100

Re: Getting started with PeerTube

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You mean because the word "ontology" has been embiggened a bit?

Re: Getting started with PeerTube

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I 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/

Or any of the instances listed on https://instances.joinpeertube.org
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