If you could improve PeerTube, what would you improve?
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I think there are about 5 decent ones:
- The Linux Experiment (tilvids)
- Gardiner Bryant (subscribeto.me)
- techlore (tilvids)
- Veronica explains
- fedihost
- blender
- transport evolved (peertube.tv)
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Nice thanks. I think I subscribe to 3 of them. Now we have some more!
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@[email protected] TechLore now seems to be at https://neat.tube/c/techlore/videos
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Import/export subscriptions
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It would be nice if there was an easy and straightforward way for instances to create their own shared indexes. There's a feature for this in PeerTube, which I guess is supposed to act like instance following + a shared search catalogue. It would be handy to know how to easily make sort of the federation equivalent of a webring.
The devs are also working on a mobile app, which I think is something the platform is sorely missing.
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It's surprising that there doesn't seem to be an obvious way in the UI to just see a list of creators/channels on a local instance. So, that's the first thing I'd change to improve discoverability.
The way I currently find relevant content is by going to Sepia Search, putting in exact words that I think are likely to be in the title of at least one video on a channel that would likely also have a lot of other relevant content, and then going through that channel's playlists. Those searches often lead me to single user instances with only one or two channels (e.g. a channel that has a backup of that user's YouTube content and a channel with a backup of their Twitch or OwnCast or whatever streams). When it leads me to a generalist instance or one with a relevant subject/theme though, I've had little luck finding content from anyone else unless they've posted recently (compared to other users). Often the content that is most relevant to me is not what is newest but the archives from years ago. (New content is relevant though once I want to follow someone in particular, but it's not what I want to see first.)
Another issue I've encountered is with the behavior of downloaded videos. I greatly appreciate that PeerTube provides a URL for direct download, and I prefer to watch videos in my own player downloaded in advance (so I can watch offline; pause and resume trivially after putting my computer to sleep; etc). H264 MP4 works fine for this, but the download seems to be some sort of chunked variant of it (for HLS?) which requires the player to read in the entire file to figure out the length or seek accurately. Having to wait a minute or two to be able to seek each time I open a large video file off my HDD is an irritating papercut. I suspect there's likely a way to fix it by including an index in the file (or in a sidecar file) but I don't know how to do it -- short of re-encoding the entire video again which I'd rather not do since it both takes a long time and can result in quality loss. This usually doesn't affect newly added videos (where the download link includes the pattern
/download/web-videosand a warning is shown that it's still being transcoded) but does when that's done (the URL includes/download/streaming-playlists/hls/videosinstead); so, this is something that happens as a result of PeerTube's reprocessing.Downloads from the instances that I've found to be most relevant to me are also pretty unreliable (connection is slow and drops a lot), so I use wget with automatic retries (and it sometimes still needs manual retries...) rather than downloading through my browser which tends to fail and then often annoyingly start over completely if I request a retry... It would be really nice if I could check that I've downloaded the file correctly and completely with a sha256 hash or something.
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More content. We need 100% of the Creative Commons videos to be mirrored, to start
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Search on all these federated sites is terrible. We need several user-selectable algorithms that display feeds from all instances
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Ads. If I could press a button and inject 30 second ads into videos that would cover the cost of the server, I'd run an instance today and start mirroring a fuckoad of content from YouTube
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The ability to post a video to multiple co-authors' channels.
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I mean I guess this would be an OK option. Disabled by default. IMHO this is the problem with YouTube lol
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How does nostr make it easier to monetize video plays?
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I found one, but search didn't work
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Misskey has a pretty great support for peertube.
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Better federation. The vidiverse search is just bad, i want to watch all types of content from my account.
And more general instances; i'm on spectra.video now, but as i said the vidiverse search sucks and it's not federated to enough instances
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Correction (De)Centralized index
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Peertube is perfect for those niche things that aren't revenue friendly. Add in the creator needs to be big enough to be self sufficient from patreon, its the plateform that isnt limited by ad sense BS or what trendy shit is happening.
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I tried to sign up for an account, I was going to use it to create content, so I picked some tags (which definitely leave out too many broad categories to be particularly useful, and is thus incredibly limiting) that seemed somewhat related to what I wanted to do.
I then looked through the instance list based on those tags, and tried to find one that fit.. and I couldnāt, because all of them had some caveat or blurb or whatever that made me go ānope, probably not here..ā
The problem is that I had to click through multiple pages to hit those caveats in the instance rules/description during the signup process, and I had to do it for every one I wanted to check out. They werenāt at all listed on the main page, and they probably should be, maybe under a popup tooltip sort of button. As it stands it was a huge waste of time, and I gave up, and lost interest in having a channel. Maybe Iāll browse it if it ever picks up, but frankly the process of signing up to be a content creator is far too onerous.
Maybe thatās a problem with the instance owners and how they have things set up, maybe with the way the whole platform works, I donāt really know. It was pretty consistent though, so I assume itās a platform problem.
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