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
Thats my opinion as very small content creator who is peertube exclusive:
You're comparing one of the world's biggest companies to a small foundation that relies on donations (and has one fulltime developer, i think? I´m not sure.)
Apart from a browser, no one needs an additional app to use Peertube. Youtube is an website, too.
A Fediverse account, however, is really helpful. So you can like, boost and comment peertube videos.
And yes, peertube means video hosting and lacks many community features and other things. but the software is growing and it is opensource. If you need something: Everyone can contribute in different ways or donate some money.
@ErikDerBezwinger @randahl @anderspuck @Gargron
Agree, better to support the development of what has the potential of becoming a really good federated video sharing service than making Mastodon a giant "Jack of all trades".
I have a peertube channel (that nobody watches), I never use the peertube app, the web interface is great on all surfaces, and I use Mastodon to follow my favorite "peertubers" anyway.
Randahl Fink
Viðrir
Erik