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Peertube

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A free software to take back control of your videos

Peertube is an open, federated alternative to Youtube without advertising or tracking. On this site, you can find a good Peertube instance, with good rules, good moderation and most importantly a friendly community.

https://joinpeertube.org/

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Why is the PeerTube app situation still terrible? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml to c/peertube@lemmy.ml
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The way I see it, the mobile app ecosystem for PeerTube has yet to take off, in spite of the fact that it has a seemingly decent API. More people appear to be using the platform than ever before, which is great, but we still seem to be lacking a general ecosystem that Mastodon or even Lemmy has.

To my knowledge, these are the only apps I've ever found that work with PeerTube:

  • Thorium: Supports video playback and sign-in, doesn't support comments or replies or seemingly any social features?
  • P2Play: Seems to support commenting, but abandoned 3 years ago or so.
  • NewPipe: Actually pretty good as a player, but not really designed around the social API at all. Makes sense, given the app is more of a "download and play videos without an account" type of video app.
  • FediLab: Supposedly supports PeerTube, actually seems like a featureful client, but I've always kind of felt iffy about whether a general multi-platform app could make for a good experience.

It just feels as though we're lacking a quality mobile client for PeerTube, and I think it's a missed opportunity. Do we currently now of any other efforts out there to build for the platform?

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[–] roo@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

Bill shock might be waiting for anyone silly enough to deep dive with peertube. And website hosts don't usually play nice when you want to start streaming media. I can see why a lot of people aren't jumping in with both feet.

You have to remember that YouTube has a gigantic corporation to back it. A lot of platforms tend to lean heavily on YouTube for content.

I think it's a case of waiting for another expansion in the Fediverse to make it all worthwhile. Otherwise, the app you develop could suddenly find itself disconnected from any instances willing to stream a large volume of content.

I might be wrong, but that's what I considered when thinking about contributing.