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.
@randahl @anderspuck @Gargron
But flodding Mastodon with videos will make it extremely more expensive to run small Mastodon instances.
No, I prefer videos to stay on PeerTube, its just as easy to follow Peer Tube channels on Mastodon as any other fediverse account.
Setting up a Peer Tube channel is done in minutes.
@Vidrir The videos could be hosted seperately behind the scenes.
I would pay good money to have my Mastodon account “video creator enabled”, if this enables me to share my videos to the audience I love.
But asking people to download yet another app and create yet another account and follow me on yet another platform is just not a viable way forward.
Yes, you can watch PeerTube from a hyperlink, but that is not a full YouTube experience with creator support, debate, etc.
@anderspuck @Gargron
@Gargron @randahl @Vidrir @anderspuck Keyword is #boost.
Boost your #PeerTube video to #Mastodon and you get exactly what you're talking about in this comment.
Only thing, that's required is your account on PeerTube. Not sure if Mastodon can handle this, but I can automatically boost all my videos from my PeerTube account using #Friendica mirroring ability.
Randahl Fink
Viðrir
Schmaker