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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PeerTube's Content Wasteland (deadsuperhero.com)

submitted 3 years ago by deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml to c/peertube@lemmy.ml

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In 2018, a platform was launched to build an open, decentralized web for videos. In 2021, the network is still struggling to grow. I take a look into some of the problems with content discovery, along with some small suggestions for instance admins.

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[–] humanetech@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

It may also be a good idea to promote other use cases that stimulate spinning up PeerTube instances, or use an existing host for that. For instance there are so many initiatives, non-profits, public institutions that want to improve the tech landscape, yet exclusively dump their video content to YT, reference it in their pages and expose you to the trackers that involves. Their strategy should be to first publish to their own PeerTube and then afterwards to alternative channels. This also protects them from their channel taken down or censored for some reason or other, assuring no links get broken and they have an archive to fall back to.

[–] ericbuijs@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago

I agree. The most prominent example is the Blender Foundation that has their own instance (https://video.blender.org/videos/local). Judging by the number of views people are having a hard time finding. Small wonder since I couldn't find any link to it on the Blender Foundation website. A missed opportunity.