Last night I watched a video of @benpate's talk from #FediCon last year;
https://peertube.iridescent.nz/w/sW6qcdP4ogG5DXW1RUzyo3
What a ride! I found myself vigorously agreeing with most of it. But there were other parts where I was divided against myself. One part still agreeing. another part nervous, that if we go down the road of scaling, monetisation and professionalisation, we risk repeating the mistakes of the original web, and end up right back where we started in another 20 years.
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@bhaugen
> I'm interested but get "bad gateway" on every link.
Have I slashdotted spectra.video? 😳
Maybe I ought to have found the video post from within my fediverse app and started this thread as a reply to it. But WebTorrent is supposed to help @peertube servers cope with heavy attention on 1 video. So maybe it's @Mastodon's way of fetching link previews that's overloading spectra.video?
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Me
> Have I slashdotted spectra.video?
Upon further investigation, it seems spectra.video was on the fritz already;
"Due to changes in a PeerTube data migration script, an exponentially high amount of jobs to transcode videos and move them into Object Storage has caused a high amount of tasks (roughly 10,000) in our job queue."
https://spectra.instatus.com/cmnsgpdcl098qzilvy26g50hk
So maybe a few people trying to watch the video knocked it off its perch.
This led me down a PeerTube UX rabbithole. I tried searching the URL of Ben's talk video on peertube.iridescent.nz, and I was able to find and watch it there, but only while logged in. When I tried it in a private window, to see if I could share a link to the video via our PT service, it didn't work.
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So then I thought, can I pull a copy of the video the our service, and link that? I dug around the interface but couldn't find any way to do it. Seems I have to download it from spectra.video, then upload it to peertube.iridescent.nz.
It would be really handy to have a button that allows me to pull transcoded copies of a video directly from another PT service (with an appropriate set of permissions controlling that on their end)
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Strypey
bhaugen