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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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[-] kib48@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

peertube is never gonna be a replacement for youtube, it's good as a "upload random stuff you made" platform but modern youtube is so detached from that

[-] sexy_peach@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago

Mastodon might never replace twitter but it's still a cool platform with a similar use case.

[-] kib48@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

true

[-] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

I guess it depends on what you use it for.

I have two use cases, personally.

  1. How to videos for stuff I don't know how to do. Like, fix a leaky spigot or something like that.

  2. Following content creators.

I could see PeerTube being fine for #1, but I don't see it ever being positioned as a viable option for those who want to generate reasonable profit for their content. Would be happy to be proven wrong though.

[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

YouTube algorithm: Yo, dawg, I heard you like spigots! Check out the latest spigot content from these awesome creators! Don't forget to subscribe so you never miss out on the freshest spigot uploads!

[-] cafuneandchill@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I think PeerTube could possibly work for streamer VOD channels, since a lot of them probably keep them locally for archival/backup purposes, anyway. I've seen people mention thar PT uses BitTorrent for streaming videos to other users -- I think that could work for this particular purpose

[-] falsem@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

That's what Youtube still is to me.

[-] executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

That's what YouTube was so maybe the churn will continue.

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