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I would be happy to. I looked at peertube but didn't pull the trigger and instead went to YouTube. I think the upload limits held me back. I went through a lot of sites and some would not have video descriptions, some would have no monetization methods, others no audience. I'll definitely be dropping and email, I think the 5k would be best spent adding monetization and discovery features for creators though.

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Did you check out LBRY? If so what did you not like about it?

I work on https://lbry.tv and the desktop app and am just curious.

Not OP, but multiple American political conspiracy theories/theorists featured on the front page doesn't seem like a good look, or something most people would want to be associated with.

the moving thumbnails all at once everywhere is just atrocious.

That one is filed! https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-desktop/issues/3134

Just haven't gotten to it yet. We're a pretty small team right now.

Another key point is that LBRY and PeerTube have different philosophies on how to approach decentralization. I believe LBRY uses a Blockchain for media storage, but PeerTube is more built around the concept of data federation - people set up separate sites that can then seamlessly integrate with one another by passing messages around, rather than each site having to maintain a separate copy of the same ledger.

Additionally, PeerTube is also compatible with the wider fediverse through the usage of the ActivityPub protocol, meaning that channels can be followed via a dozen or so other platforms that all speak the same federation language. Theoretically, it would be possible to write an entirely new project from scratch (in a completely different language even) that's capable of federating videos with existing PeerTube installations.

This is not to say that there's anything specifically "wrong" with LBRY, just that one approach already integrates with a broader set of platforms due to what community it was developed out of.

It uses the blockchain to store pointers to find the data in a p2p network.

Anyone can build an app that interacts with the LBRY network through the lbry-sdk (https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-sdk). To be fair though, our company is the only one working on apps atm. But you could build one in any language you want.

Syncing my YT account now. I think I bounced from all the federated Peertube instances due to their upload limits. Started my account on YouPorn, they have absolutely great paid video features. No descriptions though and no audience there.

My feature wishlist would be if you can have paid videos or reasonable user access control and an API, set up some sort of shop to sell merch, and have course style organization. I use playlists for organization on YT, but it could be better. YT has a lot of that stuff, but you need to have a shit ton of subs or view hours to get access to it, so I don't have access to it.

I'll give it a shot. If you want to get in touch with me, email and Twitter in profile. I'll probably have more feedback in a month when I'm back to my recording setup and actually upload something.

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