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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Ben Fulton 15h ago

@randahl @anderspuck @Gargron I don't watch videos so I don't care that much, but it is just as easy to subscribe to a Peertube account on Mastodon as it is any other account.

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Randahl Fink 15h ago

@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.

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Stian 14h ago

Not sure this is where the friction is, but his peertube account is @[email protected]. and then he can boost posts from there into his main feed, but it seems he also shares his videos posted on other platforms.
Personally Peertube is the only video platform in which I subscripe to creators, precisely because I don't need other accounts and feeds than my mastodon one.
@randahl @benfulton @anderspuck

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Randahl Fink 13h ago

@sab the fact that you had to look up a different @anderspuck account is friction in itself.

@[email protected] @benfulton @anderspuck

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Stian

You don't have to if he boosts the videos in his main account.
For me it's also an advantage, as it makes it easy to follow the video content separately from microblog posts. Just because I want to subscribe to someone's videos it doesn't mean I want to see everything they post online.
Another advantage is that it plays better with other non-mastodon sites. Here's the war talk channel as seen on (the Reddit-like site) Piefed, for example:
https://piefed.social/c/[email protected]
@randahl @anderspuck @benfulton

Anders Puck Nielsen

PeerTube channel of Anders Puck Nielsen. Mostly a mirror of the YouTube channel.