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Peertube's moment might come soon (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by sexy_peach@feddit.de to c/technology@beehaw.org

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/5294605

Youtube, for so many years, was just too good. Yes, they changed the 5 star rating system to likes and dislikes and a few years later disabled dislikes altogether, but their algorithm mostly digs up interesting content and it just works for creators and viewers.

This might change soon. Their new strategy to disallow ad-blockers will frustrate a certain kind of viewer. Those who dislike surveillance and like open-source tech, those who use uBlock Origin and know why.

Just like a few years ago mastodon suddenly reached a certain kind of popularity, because twitter had their first big fuckup, maybe Peertube is next. It certainly is the most polished decentralized solution that doesn't use a blockchain. Creators or fans could easily host their own videos, fans can watch it, without ads.

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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't need a centralized platform to have recommendations.

You just let users choose some tags and go from there. Each server will surface different videos, but if they all pull from everyone they're federated with it would be a lot more accessible pretty quickly. And let users opt in/out of watch history tracking to feed their suggestions.

It won't have the potential YouTube does, but YouTube's so compromised on intent that it could easily be better in practice if content availability were the same (which is obviously way off).

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure if Peertube perhaps already does that. There are tags to a video and it shows related videos. But I don't know how it calculates that.

I don't think Peertube stores interests of the users, yet. That would be a possible solution. But it also requires the user to put something in or some tracking of their activity.

Edit: Misunderstood you, corrected my comment.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

That's fine, though.

You just explicitly make it opt in and make it clear what you're storing and why.