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Wow only one developer working on PeerTube and not even full time. No way will that level of effort be able to challenge any of the incumbents.

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You are welcome to help. I have very little time but managed to get a working android client running and published: https://github.com/sschueller/peertube-android

Has this line of thinking ever actually convinced even one person?

It's why FOSS can't make serious inroads in a lot of domains. Like 20 years ago I was convinced we'd all never be paying for Word, but here we are, 20 years later, still buying Word.

Word does exactly what it says on the tin and doesnt steal your data. Facebook/google on the other hand...

Are you sure? What is the Microsoft upload center that gets installed with word? I can't figure out how to disable it.

> I was convinced we'd all never be paying for Word, but here we are, 20 years later, still buying Word.

Inertia has long lasting effects.

We are buying Word?

The fact that anything at all happens for $0 is amazing. It's hard to find half-decent volunteer opportunities in general.

Maybe the one paying Word got eaten by a marketing team? There are free alternatives. It works for my needs though.

How many people work on YouTube, Vimeo, ... the platforms themselves, as opposed to promotion, monetization algorithms, marketing, etc? PeerTube actually works really well, and as long as communities come together to help with support/promotion/... I don't see why it couldn't "challenge any of the incumbents" even with only one developer on staff.

At Youtube, there's gotta be hundreds of engineers.

hundreds? try thousands.

They excluded some types of engineers in their categorization.

It isn't about challenging anything.

It's about a libre alternative.

Does the apple challenge the orange? They are both fruits!

As a peer-to-peer service, its existence depends on uptake, and as a video service, uptake of PeerTube is a challenge to YouTube.

You can take up both.

Maybe he is a 10x:er?

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