If you could improve PeerTube, what would you improve?
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What keeps you away from PeerTube?
The app not being on F-Droid. Once it's there, I'll at least try it out. Bonus if there's an Android TV app too. I'll watch stuff on PeerTube if I'm given a direct link, and I tried playing around with NewPipe but the experience feels bolted on to the rest of the app.
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@asudox I love the idea of peertube. I have a couple of accounts. It used to be easier to load new content by URL when it supporfted input from YouTube, but YT has gone out of their way to maintain their virtual monoply. In order for such a service to be more useful than just sharing videos with your immediate friends and family you need a way for creaters to make money, which i think is going to be easier on #NOSTR . I think a better question is how do we make nostr useful for more than just bitcoinbois.
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@asudox then again having a tool that is only used for sharing videos with immediate friends and family is fine too. Not everything needs to be focused on killling off a particular non-free software for it to have value in and of it self.
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Making some sort of monetization scheme in which creators are paid more per view than YouTube, would solve a lot.
Then creators might as well spend the extra couple of minutes to also upload to PeerTube, because they make more money per view there.
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I want the ability to have everything behind a login. I don't want people not signed in watching videos and wasting bandwidth.
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I would very much appreciate the ability to explore other instances and see what channels are hosted there from my own instance, instead of having to open the new instance in a new tab, then copy and paste the link to each interesting channel into my instance to be able to subscribe to it.
I wish there was a similar feature for Lemmy as well.
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I think the only thing it need is a mainstream instance.
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Ok that's pretty close! The reddit thing was about streaming your camera, and having a chat window where you could read comments from viewers.
The other key element was having a place where viewers could see what was currently streaming. That allows people to casually go see "what's on" without needing to coordinate with livestreamers to set up a time to watch, keep track of streamer channels, etc.
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Well that's new. Thanks!
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Getting Lemmy(and other fedi services) to fully support linking videos would help. Piefed and and other platforms support it pretty well.
for example: https://piefed.social/post/398574
direct link vs just the url. Lemmy will not work with the direct link like this nor the comments appearing in both instances.
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The biggest thing is content and discoverability.
Any good channel recommendations?
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It used to work fine in Lemmy, but somewhere along the line it seems to have broken.
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Make sure you enable "tethered network services" (due to the Sepia search integration) as otherwise it is hidden in the F-droid app. Early days, you can't even log into an account yet, but looks promising.
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I tried it, but gave up months ago. Decentralization is what we're all about, but without a centralized index of what's available, finding videos on PeerTube is more work than watching them is worth.
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For long-form video creators a Patreon like subscription service might work, but I very much agree with you that this is the main issue. Peertube works fine from the technical side of things.
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Search.
If I go to youtube, and I search for content, it's either there, or it's not.
If I go to peertube, I need to then exit the site, search on AN UNRELATED 3RD PARTY SITE, and then I can get results from more than the local instance.
If I go to an instance that's nothing but stamp collecting, the trending videos are going to be about stamp collecting. That doesn't mean all of peertube is talking about stamp collecting. I'm just on the wrong instance, and the site itself is fractured and borderline useless.
Now you can include a feature to tell peertube that you DO want to see trending, local only, as a stamp collector, on a stamp collecting instance, that would be really useful! But also, if I don't give a fuck about stamps, as mkst people don't, the default should be peertube wide trending across ALL instances. I mean, if I don't care about stamps I'm on the wrong instance to begin with, but that's besides the point.
I feel like peertube should be each instance is a different type of content. Want to watch guys go fishing? There's an instance just for that. With multiple different channels, each from different people, each covering different fishing topics. But your whole life isn't just one topic. So you go to a different instance, one for automobiles, and you follow the channels that post videos about your car. Then you go to a cooking instance, and find a channel that's just a guy showing you how to bake pies and cakes while running from the police.
Your searches, will 99% of the time not find the most relevant results if we seperate the content based on instance. So the search as is, is really limited and fragmented to have to go to another site, search, find the video, come back to peertube, log in, go to the video directly, and THEN subscribe to the content.
See how jarring that is, compared to youtube? Search, click, play/subscribe. All in 10 seconds.
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Yeah it's been a little less than a year since it stopped working. I saw the GH issues, looks like the Lemmy devs took the position the Peertube devs need to fix....something with activityhub.
I tried to take a look with my local Lemmy instance but it looks like the issue resides in how different Lemmy uses activityhub than other software. I don't claim to know why they made the change but they seem to be the odd one out.
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- Featured creators on homepage (by admin)
- opt-out federation
- discovery algorithm that doesn't suggest 3 year old videos as "trending"
- A mobile app that works
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A good app that feels native
A short video feature that let me browse like tiktok tbh. I know people think short videos are bad but blender tutorials, recipe videos, leftist information are great on tiktok because theyre forced to get straight to the point without fluff like youtube videos that purposely extend the video so you watch more ads.
