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.
@spectra
> Hey sorry, we're working on this the best we can
Not at all, if anyone is owed an apology it's you folks, for having your ailing server slashdotted. The warning message was right there on the page when I copied the URL.
If I'd really been thinking, I would have downloaded the video, uploaded it to my own PT account, and shared that URL to set the scene for my rant (done now). Sorry I didn't think of that, and for any inconvenience caused to you or your members.
@spectra
> Nah, you're good. The actual problem stems from a bug earlier this week
You're very kind. But on top of all the existing issues, I'm sure it didn't help to add a bunch of people trying to watch the same video, and at the same time, me trying to test searching its URL in a bunch of different apps. Sorry! 😁
Strypey
bhaugen
Spectra Video