Peertube

I am looking for content, I like the platform but don't have much to watch.

TL;DR - A month or two back, I launched an instance with a specific goal in mind: provide a home for creators that want to put videos out into the fediverse, without having to deal with storage space limitations or the hassle of maintaining their own instances. This motivation gave birth to Spectra. The service is invite-only, and I'm looking for creators that would like to get invited to the platform to upload videos. As a bonus, creators are entitled to basically unlimited upload space.

If you're interested, reach out to me on the fediverse (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com) about getting an invite.

PeerTube kind of has an inherent discovery problem, when it comes to finding good content to watch. Granted, the project offers a global search system, along with a discovery tool for finding instances to join, as well as a way for instances to subscribe to the global firehose of a growing video catalog. However, I feel as though these are the wrong solutions for growing an actual user community - instance admins can end up with a video catalogue filled with crap that's simply not relevant to anybody.

I believe part of the solution to this problem is by using human curation to focus creators into a space, and subscribe to a handful of other reputable PeerTube instances to get some kind of community engagement going. So far, we've got about 3 or 4 people actually uploading stuff locally. It's a humble beginning! But, I'm looking to grow this little community further, because I think this effort could grow out the video part of the fediverse in a meaningful and significant way.

In a recent announcement also published on Lemmy Gabe Kangas told about Owncast's roadmap with regards to adding federation features. These include interoperability with PeerTube.

Both PeerTube and Owncast are are now both members of SocialHub, the community of technologists and fedizen that collaboratively evolve the fediverse foundation.

I encourage anyone willing to help envision how this interop may look like to become a member too and participate in forum discussions. Alternatively you can also use the SocialHub companion Fediverse Futures brainstorming space on Lemmy.

Thorium(beta) allows you to watch and browse videos on a server of your choice in the PeerTube network.

GitHub - https://github.com/sschueller/peertube-android F-droid - https://f-droid.org/de/packages/net.schueller.peertube/

Found five options, of which two look identical. I only want to search or scroll and watch, nothing more for the moment.

I am looking for a instance with Tech, gamming, privacy conent and in english. Any suggestions? Thank you in advance!

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Hope you like the diving videos in there!

Full changelog from GitHub

The #Peertube app, Tubelab has an update - Available on F-Droid

I've never run a Peertube instance so I don't have any first hand experience, but I think I've heard comments here and there about it being hard to block toxic or otherwise undesirable instances from federating with your own instance? Is this true, and what exactly is the problem?

I have been thinking about mirroring some YouTube videos licensed under creative commons onto PeerTube instances,. My goal is to hopefully reduce the need to use YouTube for some YouTube channels.

There is actually a lot of good content under creative commons on YouTube. MinuteEarth is one example off the top of my head. Some universities (like UBC in Canada) also release some of their course material under such a license.

I'm pretty sure it would be perfectly legal and ethical since creative commons definitely allows redistribution, and since PeerTube channels make no ad revenue, even mirroring of non-commercial (NC) content would be okay. I'm not a lawyer and this isn't legal advice though, and please correct me if I'm wrong on any of this.

What are your thoughts? Is this something I should look into doing?

i like this : https://vidcommons.org/video-channels/storyofstuff/videos

I think PeerTube has really come along as a project, but I think it's caught in a situation where the technical aspects are advancing far faster than the communal ones. In order for PeerTube to actually succeed in practice, I believe that creators ought to reach out to one another to create a type of loose community where we actually follow each other, comment on each other's stuff, etc, kind of like YouTube's early years.