Getting started with PeerTube

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Post by zeograd » Tue, Sep 18, 2018, 9:17 AM UTC

Getting started with PeerTube
medium.com

Re: Getting started with PeerTube

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Post by rwmj » Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 8:22 PM UTC

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

Re: Getting started with PeerTube

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Post by browsercoin » Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 8:32 PM UTC

https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube

License is AGPL v3.0...

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Re: Getting started with PeerTube

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 8:37 PM UTC

rwmj wrote: post #2

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

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Re: Getting started with PeerTube

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Post by overcast » Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 8:47 PM UTC

rwmj wrote: post #2

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

The fact that there is an entire Medium article on how to "get started" essentially guarantees it's a non starter.

Re: Getting started with PeerTube

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Post by devrand » Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 8:48 PM UTC

rwmj wrote: post #2

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.

Re: Getting started with PeerTube

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Post by robrtsql » Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 9:02 PM UTC

devrand wrote: post #6

rwmj wrote: post #2

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.

Content creators on PeerTube could do in-video product endorsements.. that's already a fairly standard practice on YouTube, which does support monetization.

Re: Getting started with PeerTube

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Post by viraptor » Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 9:10 PM UTC

robrtsql wrote: post #7

devrand wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Content creators on PeerTube could do in-video product endorsements.. that's already a fairly standard practice on YouTube, which does support monetization.

It's a bit of chicken and egg problem though. To get in video endorsements, you need to get very popular. To get very popular, you need a more popular platform than peertube.

Re: Getting started with PeerTube

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Post by derefr » Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 9:16 PM UTC

rwmj wrote: post #2

I 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.

Re: Getting started with PeerTube

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Post by rebornshellfish » Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 9:16 PM UTC

How little empathy do you have to have to think anyone wants to watch or upload videos on a system so complex.