Randahl Fink15h ago

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

Show threadBenjamin Lyng Jørgensen15h ago
@randahl i strongly disagree. The main problem is not user interface, its content. People will join whatever has the content they want. Also your critique of peertube could also be said for Mastodon, yet here were are. Yes, there is room for improvement, but that will only come with people using it.
Show threadRandahl Fink14h ago

@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.

Show threadBenjamin Lyng Jørgensen11h ago
@randahl @anderspuck okay, no. But no amount of UX-work could pull your regular viewers away from a platform they've been using for a decade. My point is that the problem is cultural much more than technical. But if the content is good, the tone is friendly, the moderation fair ect. we might slowly pull more and more users towards the fediverse. #enshitification on YouTube will help too.
Show threadBenjamin Lyng Jørgensen11h ago
@randahl @anderspuck by the way logicofwar.com isn't peertube so you're criticising the wrong thing. And I agree that the option to subscribe with a fediverse account from there is missing there.
Show threadAnders Puck Nielsen
@benjaminlj
I think @randahl is referring to my actual PeerTube account, which is @wartalk.
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