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
@randahl @Vidrir @anderspuck @Gargron
People are telling you that you can follow Peertube accounts from your Mastodon account. Only the creator needs both apps (and only if he also wants a Mastodon account). And while I personally don't have a Peertube account, I do have a Pixelfed (Fedi "instagram") account, and ⅘ of my followers are Mastodon accounts. I've had comment threads that were a mix of Pixelfed and Madtodon accounts.
The integration exists. It is not perfect, but it does work.
Which is very much the opposite of what you are comparing to, you can't follow or comment on Youtube channels in the Twitter app.
@randahl
Then the Youtube users can't follow or comment.
The big platforms have exactly the problems you describe - needing an account on every platform. Which is one of the things the fediverse was designed to do away with.
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