PeerTube 6.3
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Like many of the other open-source/libre alternatives to big platforms, there are few lock-in (aka network) effects, and so platform usage increase tends to be sloooow (aka organic). Extremely unsexy for 10x unicorn VC investment I guess. But for a user who wants to see interesting stuff it's great!
Before anyone interjects: yes, I'm aware that peertube won't work for all creators. NotJustBikes has been very clear that it would simply not be an option for them. Nebula (creator coop) seems to be the best compromise for them for now.
Anyhow, nice list of new features, much appreciated! <3
https://medium.com/@cameron-paul/who-actually-owns-nebula-95...
> Ultimately the worst thing Nebula has done is provide some misleading marketing spin. They’re still an infinitely better deal for creators than YouTube.
If they are better for the creators while also being at least cashflow-neutral, that's a much bigger deal IMHO than specifics on /who/ owns it.
https://social.notjustbikes.com/@notjustbikes/11277626354576...
But from that little, I'd interpret (!!!) that
a) It's much less of a hassle to use nebula, and
b) economically and power-wise, they see nebula like a creators' union.
It makes sense to me, I don't have grief with this. :)
I feel like the biggest problem is that this solves problems that are different then the ones most people have with youtube.
Like from what i understand from the creator side, the creators want a bigger piece of the ad revenue pie. Peertube isnt going to help with that.
I think you are missing the point: there is pretty much no money to be made with peertube. It's just people using their own bandwidth and time to host and make videos they want to see.
>NotJustBikes has been very clear that it would simply not be an option for them. Nebula (creator coop) seems to be the best compromise for them for now.
Because there is no monetization angle to peertube aside from donations. But whatever, youtube was great before monetization so I figure there is no need for these kinds of filmmakers in the long run.
And I understand full well why it's not an option for NJB. For starters because they were very clear about it when they wrote about it on mastodon. :D
- https://watch.ocaml.org (for all the OCaml language talks over the past 20 years)
- https://watch.eeg.cl.cam.ac.uk (for our research group on environmental science)
- https://crank.recoil.org (for my personal talks and videos)
The fediverse integration is a minor plus, but the permanent nature of the video hosting. My only wish is that there was a way to bidirectionally mirror view counts, so that the Peertube mirrors don't look like a ghost town.
* Separate audio and video streams for more flexibility
* Browse subtitles in the transcription widget
* Set up Youtube-dl for smoother imports
https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/pull/2213
I made this not so much to listen to music but to listen to recorded lectures while on the move - and thus on 3/4G - so as to avoid wasting data.
My biggest gripe with videos shared on Mastodon is that with so many nodes hosted on personal infrastructure on the wrong side of the consumer / producer gap in the way the modern web is laid out (i.e. hosted over a consumer cable connection with asymmetric upload / download bandwidth), trying to play a video often feels like I've been zapped back into the late-'90s and am waiting for an animated GIF to download off of USENET. I'm wondering if people generally find videos on PeerTube come through faster.
Of course, you can just go without p2p and just do client-server. That's a bit slower though, but you could do that over tor or something.
In the long run, maybe you could figure out webtorrent over i2p, I've heard p2p has had some success over i2p with applications like i2psnark but IDK as i've never used it and IDK how it would interact with WebRTC data streams (might need some sort of proxy?)