This is about PeerTube. I really want this project to succeed but it’s been many years and basically no one has heard of it. Is it really worth directing people to? The positioning of PeerTube, Framasoft, etc gets confusing for an everyday person like me.
realityfactchex•35m ago
As an everyday person, you can continue to use YouTube to discover and consume content.
It's more like, if you find a maker of content that you like, they might happen to have a PeerTube or other independent YouTube-like site up as well, as a backup or larger archive of their material.
The independently hosted FOSS alternatives are more for people who create content and don't want to or can't depend on the good graces of bigtech to indefinitely host their content for whatever reason (usually a practical matter, sometimes even underlying political factors).
For instance, YouTube will scan new content automatically and zap the channel if it says the wrong couple words more than a few times.
Maybe that's not a problem for a lot of channels. But there were definitely tons of creators who got burned by that kind of cancelling over the last n years.
So I imagine, yes, some entrepreneurial, technical, and communication-oriented folks would be interested in things like PeerTube, YouPHPTube (which is actually quite good) [1], etc.
FYI: Us humans call it "watch videos", not "consume content".
SilverElfin•1m ago
> For instance, YouTube will scan new content automatically and zap the channel if it says the wrong couple words more than a few times.
This type of censorship is why I think decentralized video is important. But if it isn’t accessible to everyday people there will be low views and it hurts the availability of censored content.
SilverElfin•1h ago
realityfactchex•35m ago
It's more like, if you find a maker of content that you like, they might happen to have a PeerTube or other independent YouTube-like site up as well, as a backup or larger archive of their material.
The independently hosted FOSS alternatives are more for people who create content and don't want to or can't depend on the good graces of bigtech to indefinitely host their content for whatever reason (usually a practical matter, sometimes even underlying political factors).
For instance, YouTube will scan new content automatically and zap the channel if it says the wrong couple words more than a few times.
Maybe that's not a problem for a lot of channels. But there were definitely tons of creators who got burned by that kind of cancelling over the last n years.
So I imagine, yes, some entrepreneurial, technical, and communication-oriented folks would be interested in things like PeerTube, YouPHPTube (which is actually quite good) [1], etc.
[1] https://youphp.tube
bruffen•27m ago
SilverElfin•1m ago
This type of censorship is why I think decentralized video is important. But if it isn’t accessible to everyday people there will be low views and it hurts the availability of censored content.