Oh my goodness, Vimeo really is a complete car crash. How did it come to this?
It's going to be a lot of work, but I now need to go 'all in' on my @peertube instance hosted by @fedihost here at https://video.bl.ag.
The Peertube account can be followed directly via @sam.
In today's instalment of the migration from Vimeo to @sam, we have 'When Better Letters Met Josef Samuel', directed by Tom Koch:
OK, I think I've got the broad workflow figured out now, although I need to see how I would have tagged @matratype directly in Peertube.
Question for @FediTips / @peertube
I'm in the process of migrating my videos from vimeo to peertube. Is there a way I can do the admin for this in a big batch without flooding the timeline of people following @sam? There will probably be in the region of 80–100 videos in total.
Or perhaps to suggest that followers mute me for a few weeks/a month while I do the migration? I can't see a way to post from peertube without uploading a video.
As far as I know the only way to avoid flooding timelines is to upload manually with delays. There's an open issue about this on the PeerTube Github at https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/7540
Suggesting they mute the account sounds like a good workaround, as long as they unmute when it's ready?
After a day of implementing my migration from Vimeo to @peertube, I can say that I'm very happy with the PeerTube user experience. It's a lot more intuitive than what Vimeo has become, and much easier to find and fine tune things along the way.
I'm excited to continue this work, alongside the addition of some new video content to @sam / https://video.bl.ag.
Thank you team PeerTube for the application and @fedihost for hosting.
@hardy The number of videos, length, and quality requirements are key considerations, as they will affect administrative time and hosting costs.
I've been using the free HandBrake app (https://handbrake.fr) to reduce the size of my videos before uploading them to PeerTube. I'm using 'playlists' to group related videos. It's worth publishing the videos little by little or scheduling them to avoid flooding timelines.
The hosting with Fedihost is easy to set up, and their pricing on the basic PeerTube 0 plan includes 10GB for $6.99/month (https://fedihost.co/pricing), although when I look it seems to say I have 20GB. Once I've uploaded the next batch of videos I'll need to take out one of their extra storage packages (scroll down on link above).
Hope that helps.
@peertube Thanks, that's really useful. I've emailed you as well, just to say how delighted I've been with recompiling my video collection on PeerTube, so please keep up the good work.
PS. One tiny improvement I'd suggest is that the 'unlisted' status of a video overrides its inclusion in a playlist. I have some that I have embedded behind the pay/free wall of my website before making them 'public' on PeerTube at some later date. However, in the app on android, those videos are visible in the playlists I'd pre-allocated them to.
@peertube @blag Got it, thanks. I'll try around a bit on some of the videos. Will have to dig up the original files somewhere first. I don't want to download compressed videos from Vimeo, only for them to be compressed some more by PeerTube afterwards.
Still looking forward to the migration, though. Glad to leave Vimeo behind.
Sam at BLAG
Fedi.Tips
Hardy Erlinger
PeerTube