Mastodawn

Many are asking me to put my videos on PeerTube, but every time I look at it, I see an overly technical user experience that I do not trust to take off.

What we need is for Mastodon to become a video platform, so THIS social medium which has now matured and people clearly love, gets robust video features.

You do not beat YouTube by making users jump through hoops to watch a video. You beat YouTube by making user sponsored creator videos turn up right in the Mastodon feed.

@anderspuck

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Sebastian Lauwers

@randahl @anderspuck @Gargron YouTube didn’t evolve from Twitter. YouTube started as a video content platform.

Hosting video is a completely different ball game to hosting… text. A toot is going to be a kilobyte or two. A few megabytes if you add images (images are the most expensive part of hosting a Mastodon instance).

A video is hundreds of megabytes, potentially even gigabytes, as I’m sure you’re very well aware while uploading to YT.

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Anders Puck Nielsen 16h ago

@teotwaki @randahl @Gargron By far the biggest challenge I've had with setting up my PeerTube instance has been to find a solid and affordable solution for storage and bandwidth. I think most YouTube creators don't appreciate how much they get for free in terms of technical infrastructure, and how much it can cost to self-host.