PeerTube: the Fediverse’s decentralized video platform (part 1: first impressions)

A walk-through of PeerTube, an open-source, federated alternative to YouTube

Elena Rossini
@_elena Something I really like about the Fediverse is that I only need this one account to find and follow different types of content. I wish more creators joined!
@Doris kannst du bitte den von
@_elena geschrieben Artikel mit in deine Linksammlung für die nächste #FediverseSprechstunde zu #Peertube mit aufnehmen?

@_elena

Thanks once more for this profound articles.

One interesting topic is ether lack of content is a peertube problem or a community challenge. Maybe looking this way triggers more responsability to creators.

Regarding mobile apps, I think initial releases allowed to manually add servers. Maybe this has changed!

Thanks for the work!

@_elena @Framasoft @peertube @fedihost @[email protected] @veronicaexplains @ewen @docpop @hikingdude wow this is really comprehensive, great resource for people following in your footsteps.
@_elena Peertube also have challenge of having casual uploaders. One thing if you have following and know your audience so you might selfhost as you already have income. Other is someone who (aka me) want to upload gameplay videos with challenges or just how to beat stage, short but still takes space. Finding instance that will give you space to host is hard. Most will have moderator registration approval. I had channel on one instance and got close to my youtube uploads.
But after lul in game I playing so no motivation to record and upload, when I got up to upload something I was met with "this website doesn't exist". I don't know reasons and didn't get email with news, but as someone who didn't donate (luxury for me honestly) I have no qualms with losing all uploads. I did upload to youtube as well, otherwise limited space on PC meant my work would go to drain even if barely anyone would appreciate a gacha strategy game clears with specific units.

@_elena As someone interested in both the Fediverse and RSS, I though I might point you at a recent project I did that lets you subscribe to communities in Lemmy and Mbin through your RSS aggregator.

The idea is to create your own feeds that surface the top upvoted community posts, reducing the firehose of posts. You set the threshold, and the RSS feeds optionally include content, summaries, and comments. And it can be self-hosted. I invite you to take it for a spin!

https://www.upvote-rss.com/

@_elena

Thanks for this review, and I have a follow-up question.

There are few people that I trust as much as you on the topic of online video. I have been active in photography, vector graphics and "pixel-pushing" for decades, but creating video content remains my White Whale. That said, I just started :)

As a beginner in the video space, not looking to start a channel or "build a following" for regular shows, would you say an account on Peertube is a good fit? For now, I basically need a space where I can host my first videos. Also to to share links via Mastodon and to embed them on my WordPress blog. I am also looking to find online communities where I can share my clips and stories to solicit feedback to learn and evolve.

Thanks!

What got my mind racing is the sheer comparison of the quick (and sometimes impulsive) creation of a post on a microblogging service like mastodon and a time consuming process of creating a video. If I would subscribe a peertube account with my mastodon account and would relay on having to spot the video in my home feed, this triggers my #fomo quite a bit. I’m thinking about automatically having the peertube account being added to a list in mastodon. (2/2)
@_elena
i would like to add nick
@thelinuxexperiment_channel to the curated list. @thelinuxEXP fits next after @vkc #imho
@_elena i completely share your view contentwise. the largest intances are full of german conspiracy theory people. would be cool, to have a mirror of archive.org feature films for example. like https://wikiflix.toolforge.org or we do not need to connect everything to the fediverse ;)
@_elena My Firefox install is complaining about the connection to blog.elenarossini.com not being secure. I'm not sure why but thought I should say something.