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PeerTube v6.3 released! (joinpeertube.org)

submitted 1 month ago by morrowind@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

I feel so bad for peertube. It's such a great idea, but until it has a full platform wide search options, and regular content producers in areas OTHER than technology, it will never catch on.

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Let's not forget about the fact that there need to be general purpose viewer instances that users can sign up to for watching content, because uh while accessing through Mastodon or Lemmy is a cool feature people want to be able to save Video lists and have watch history, things that don't work at all or well when using a Link aggregator or a Microblogging service to access the content.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 12 points 1 month ago

The bigger issue is monetization. YouTube is popular in no small part because creators are trying to make money.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 6 points 1 month ago

There's plenty of room for creators who don't want monetization or can monetize things themselves by utilizing product placements (if the platform were popular enough).

The biggest problem is federation (or lack thereof). I've looked at A LOT of instances, and most of them either don't federate at all, or only federate with a handful of other instances, as opposed to Lemmy or Mastodon that federate with thousands of others...

This means it is deeply segregated and discoverability is virtually nada, not to mention the default algorithms are completely useless and uneditable.

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 4 points 4 weeks ago

This is all true, but they would still have to say goodbye to the ad revenue from YouTube. However little that might be.

[-] rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

sepiasearch.org

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

If this searches all of peertube, then it needs to be the default search on every peertube page.

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 6 points 4 weeks ago

The administrator can enable this on their instance. It is not enabled by default.

I’ve this enabled on my instance peertube.wtf

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Should be on by default, and unable to be deselected on every instance. Anyways, I went to your instance, searched "Cleveland", and among some other crappy videos that aren't worth watching I found THIS GEM

So that's cool.

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Thank you for the recommendation, it’s time to try out Peertube once again.

[-] yonder@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 weeks ago

For me, I found that there were a few channels I subscribe to on youtube that also upload on freetube, so I watch their videos on freetube instead. I also find that the image quality is better than youtube.

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

Peertube vs Youtube in numbers: 21k / 2.7b

Yeah they need to improve quite a bit because the platform is harder to use in comparison to Lemmy and Mastodon.

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 4 weeks ago

Who needs to improve exactly? The PeerTube software or the instances hosting PeerTube?

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 weeks ago

I would say both as Peertube needs an app and instances need to remain up and running.

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 8 points 4 weeks ago

True, an official mobile app is in the works. Will probably release at the end of the year. We also need more "general" PeerTube instances.

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 weeks ago

Unfortunately the official app is currently only being developed for android so I won’t be able to use it on my iPhone. I should try to support them more so they can get around to it quicker.

I would love to see a Canadian Peertube instance perhaps Fedecan may be able to look into it.

@admin@lemmy.ca

[-] Chocobozzz@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 weeks ago

The application will be cross-platform and so work on an iPhone

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 weeks ago

Awesome news 👏

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 5 points 4 weeks ago

peertube.ca has been registered since last year, but no Peertube instance yet. Perhaps in the future. However, if you check this list https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances?sort=country&page=1 you will see lots of Canadian instances.