I fully support this. Unlike Rossmann’s platform, this isn’t scraping YouTube and reposting videos without ads. This is a genuine competitor to YouTube using a decentralized network. Great! Keep it up! If I were a creator, I would definitely use this. The peer-to-peer aspect of it is fantastic, especially for live streaming.
Nobody is talking about it, because it doesn’t have a central front page for the videos with a global search box. Like this it’s just a fancy video hosting software, nothing that stupid masses can use.
PeerTube work just like Lemmy, when it comes to federation. If you are on the front page of Lemmy.wtf you only see content that is federated specifically with lemmy.wtf. On PeerTube.wtf you also only see content that is federated. However, PeerTube support a “global search” that uses SepiaSearch and SepiaSearch knows about pretty much every PeerTube instance. So when you use the search box on peertube.wtf, it will search beyond the instances that federates with peertube.wtf.
There is SepiaSearch, but yeah, it specifically poses itself as just a search box, because a centralized front page is antithetical to decentralization…
Yeah, without the ability to search in a useful way, it’s useless for a viewer that isn’t already aware of a specific instance and its contents.
That isn’t about stupidity, it’s simply that it’s useless for the kind of viewing YouTube is.
https://peertube.lon.tv/ is down :/
And I don’t know why people think “monetisation are ads”. It’s nearly the first thing that came out of his mouth when talking about money. It feels like the facebook et al have just redefined what it means to monetise something and people assume it means ads. However, all it means is “to make a profit or derive income from” (dictionary.com). Ads are nowhere in the definition.
thecool.tube isn’t approving videos :c
wow they instance still runs of 3.0.0 version of PeerTube.
