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Congrats on a major update!

Peertube is something I’ve been trying again and again from time to time. My main issue is finding instances to follow that are properly moderated. A lot of the suggested instances are filled with stolen content, porn, or just very wtf videos.

I’m hoping that once peertube provides ways for users to sponsor/subscribe-to creators’ peertube channels that more will either jump ship from youtube or at least publish in both platforms.

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> lot of the suggested instances are filled with stolen content, porn, or just very wtf videos.

The service that competes with youtube but is less convenient will necessarily be full of content banned from youtube.

After meeting Youtube's hours (or views?) threshold for monetization, months later the mass-demonetized anyone without enough subscribers. Dunno how threatening my semi-popular Macbook repair video was.

Sorry for solving people's problem instead of being entertaining like a network TV series.

Of course this sapped any desire to create a video again whenever I spend weeks finding a solution and then discover it.

I'd rather make a cent from PeerTube than $0 from YT.

Yeah, though as we can see from experience of Gab being the biggest Mastodon instance and Mastodon not having collapsed, it's possible to have an alternative without it necessarily becoming a "witch town".

Gab left the fediverse quite a while ago now:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/ie49qp/is_gab_sti...

I don't think they ever really cared about decentralisation/federation. Seems they just wanted a nice codebase to work from.

My main point is that Mastodon survived the ordeal.

It wasn't hard when all the big apps and most of the big instances blocked it between the announcement and launch. The instances that didn't block it mostly looked like Gab anyway.

I'd take the claim that Gab was "the biggest Mastodon instance" with a pinch of salt, to be honest.

Plus, they were immediately and almost universally banned by other instances in the fediverse

Yes, while technically true, it's only due to the way that they arrived vs the way the rest of the Mastodon federation grew.

Gab broke/removed the code for federation several months ago, so they're no longer part of the fediverse. See my reply to your GP for more details.

A problem here is that the default configuration automatically follow back any instance that follows it, making all their content appear on its frontpage. I think that is a pretty unsafe default.

Didn't that default change recently? I installed Peertube a couple of months ago, and I'm pretty sure that option was off by default (and I never changed it).

It might have! I installed a while ago.

I didn't find a fast way to un-follow all those automatically-followed instances though.

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