If you could improve PeerTube, what would you improve?
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I mean, if it had invidious' functionality tacked on, i might be swayed to use it. That being said, rip public invidious instances
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Yeah. We do have PeerTube Live, but it's not official and integrated into the PeerTube app itself. It also can't stream the screen of the phone, so there's that.
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The question is how to get the creators there. A lot of people are on YouTube because of the ad revenue, but with no ads on PeerTube there’s no revenue to share. A lot of other for-profit companies have tried to lure these creators away with little success, so I’m not sure how a non-profit service is supposed to attract people who have turned content creation into a career.
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Right. OP didn't specify it has to be a technical shortcoming... or easy to solve. So I just said what I think is the biggest issue. Because I really think the platform itself, and the software are great. And constantly improving.
I think this is really difficult to impossible to overcome. Other for-profit platforms have failed at this. Even the big players like Youtube, TikTok etc needed a huge pile of money, investors and an unethical business model to succeed.
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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.
