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.
@benfulton respectfully, I disagree. I am already following @anderspuck, but if I want to watch one of his videos and place a comment underneath it and support him with $5, I currently need three different platforms.
This is not seamless, and all this friction cannot compete with YouTube.
@osma I was shown this UI, and I promise you, that is not just an authentication dialog, that is a wall which sends 9 out of 10 users elsewhere.
Countless times I hear tech-savvy people say they do not understand why the average user can鈥檛 just google her way to content on a platform she does not know, and create an account, and find her way through an interface she does not understand.
She can鈥檛. And that is the point.
Friction is a killer.
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And now that you've had an opportunity to think about this:
What you actually want is for fedi clients to understand video and display it inline, so that you're not sent out of the client to look at an unfamiliar interface. Such as, how @phanpy does it.
Figuring out how to comment on a YouTube video if you don't already have a YouTube/Google account isn't much easier - except that Google is pushing much harder to create a 1st party account.
@randahl
RE: https://mastodon.social/@aslakr/116356110630957976
@osma @randahl It might be a bit confusing that the Mastodon web client shows the #Peertube video inline, while some other clients like @ivory don't.
For making Peertube videos known it would help if Peertube supported Mastodon style quoting
@osma @randahl I haven't seen discussion of supporting quote-posts (FEP-044f) on @peertube except from https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/7253
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