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Thoughts on two months of re-engaging with PeerTube as an alternative to YouTube:
https://blog.beerriot.com/2026/04/02/workshop-drawers-videos/
#PeerTube #MakerTube

BeerRiot Blog: Videos: Making Drawers for Workshop Cabinetry

I published new woodworking videos in March, for the first time in a year. There are two links for each video, because I've posted them all on two different services: the familiar YouTube, and the likely unfamiliar PeerTube.

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diyelectromusic 2d ago

@bryan I must admit when I find a maker who uses both YT and MakerTube I'm a little conflicted. I want to watch the MakerTube version as a show of "I prefer here, I'm here, I see you". But I also know how much more valuable a view is on YT to the people there (sadly)

My own videos, well I use MakerTube as the source and like you just link out to them. But I keep cross-posting to YT for the people who already follow me there.

I suspect we'll be stuck in this middle-space for a while yet...

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Bryan Fink 2d ago

@diyelectromusic Indeed, totally fair about the value of the view to The Algorithm for helping the creator. I'm lucky to not need to care about how view rates are affecting my revenue, but for other folks, yeah.
And I suppose cross-posting is old-hat for a lot of those other folks too, though it's YouTube-Instagram-TikTok instead. POSSE forever, I suppose. https://indieweb.org/POSSE

POSSE

POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties (like social media silos) with original post links to provide viewers a path to directly interacting with your content.

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