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.
@benjaminlj If you are right, then I suppose in a few months @anderspuck will have hundreds of thousands of subscribers on PeerTube, like he does on YouTube, just because his content is now available on PeerTube.
Forgive me, but no matter how much I love Anders’ content, I doubt that. Because the UI experience matters.
My average 60-year-old viewer on YouTube has zero incentive for switching to an inferior user experience on an unknown platform with a UI she does not understand. Zero.
@randahl You were kind enough to respond to me once here in the Fedi. That made me look at your content closer. I now see and actually read more of your posts. Sadly, none of the content is from a Google related platform.
Some of us don’t have stellar service or unlimited data for videos anyway. My concern would be having videos suppressed on a whim.
Cheers
@D5V3 what do you mean by "Sadly, none of the content is from a Google related platform"?
When I publish YouTube videos, that is to a Google platform. Not because I want it to be, but because Google owns the de facto monopoly, YouTube.
Randahl Fink
Benjamin Lyng Jørgensen
D5V3