Happy #GlobalSwitchDay

tisktisk

Loops.video isn't accepting new users atm. Even if it was, I got in on early signup and I have next to zero functionality out of it rn. Just informing the curious masses

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Then email is a part of the fediverse? UUCP nets? IRC nets?

All federated, none speak AP.

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My understanding from what you're writing (and from this article) is that the phone number is really the account number. That's all well and fine, but then they force you to verify that the number is yours (or at the very least, one that you have access to because you need to receive a confirmation over SMS), so you can't use something more private. And sure, it makes it a little harder to find your new contact, but I don't think it's really that big of a deal - just exchange your other "account number" via some other channel.

Besides, don't think for a second that when this identifying information inevitably falls into the wrong hands that it will benefit you in any way. "What are you hiding, citizen?" and all that bullshit.

The part of it that bothers me is the sense of entitlement that these companies exhibit. The "Give us your phone number or fuck off" sentiment is something I just refuse to accept. If Google forces us to do the same and we refuse, what makes Signal think that we'll do it for them when they're so much smaller by comparison? Especially when you're trying to claim you're more secure and private to people that much more tech savvy than average, this just comes off as not understanding your audience very well. I'm sure I'm not the only one that is holding out against using Signal because of this.

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Hear me out.

Creators should be hosting peer tubes. And they should host exclusively their own content. Fans of their can subscribe to whatever systems they want to pay and support.

For creators, it's a backup for when YouTube the project inevitably fails. For fans as well. But it's also a backup of their content.

THCDenton

Im using it now. I never used tiktok but i can see the draw now.

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Are the people I normally watch on YouTube unable to be seen on peertube?

Basically this. There are some creators that either switched or publish on both platforms, mainly from the Linux sphere (and, unfortunately, also some crackpots and/or scammers who got kicked from other platforms), but overall, it doesn't have a lot of content, especially content that's on a "professional" level.

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It's not an alternate way to view Youtube, it's a totally separate service. You're not missing anything, if no one's using it to post content, then there's no content. Youtube is a tough one to compete with because the infrastructure needed to host that much data and distribute it is insane. Peertube is super niche and not many know about it, but I do wonder how fast scaling would become a problem if it suddenly got an influx of new users.

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Peertube is more like a "Proof Of Concept". In reality, most content creators will not switch to it (or even care enough to learn about it).

This isn't like the reddit --> Lemmy transition, where you switch from Stranger Group A to Stranger Group B. If creators aren't moving, there will be no transition. And, unlike with social media posts that you can repost, you can't even reupload Youtube videos because you'll get copyright take down notices (that the instance owner will legally have to comply with).

Btw, Peertube federates with other Peertube instances, it's not a front-end for Youtube.

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The last thing we need is more barriers to entry. People have hundreds of SMS /MMS contacts they'vebuilt up over decades. You can't expect people to say "fuck all that" and start over from scratch.

And you also WANT verification unless you want some bot setting up an account with my phone number so they can scam people pretending to be me.

It really sounds like your issue with Signal is it's not the correct service for your use. It's like declaring a wrench bad because it's not good at driving nails.

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Lemmy is fine, just change the color of background.

Peertube is... well... needs improvement...

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what about diaspora?

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Loops really isn't ready for primetime. It's too new and unpolished, and will need a bit more time.

I wonder if peertube can scale. YouTube has a whole sophisticated system for ingesting and transcoding videos into dozens of formats, with tradeoffs being made on computational complexity versus file size/bandwidth, which requires some projection on which videos will be downloaded the most times in the future (and by which types of clients, with support for which codecs, etc.). Doing this can require a lot of networking/computing/memory/storage resources, and I wonder if the software can scale.

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You also can't just switch from whatsapp to signal. I have hundreds of contacts on whatsapp that message me constantly there, and 2 on signal.

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I got the PeerTube android app. It's very bare bones. As a first foray into peertube I'm not sure it's the way to go. I think I've set myself up for failure.

Anycase, I'll dedicate some time to try find some pocket of content I like tomorrow. Getting away from YouTube sure would be nice.

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Statick

Tech-savvy content creators, sure...

Your average content creator that wants to make minecraft videos? Unrealistic.

I hate the monopoly youtube has, but all of the federated alternatives have a learning curve the general public isn't willing to deal with.

Statick

You need to sign up and wait for a beta invite. Took 15-30 days for me to get in. It's not ready for primetime.

ArgyBargy

May I recommend NewPipe on android? It's a proxy for YouTube/Bandcamp/Plus a bunch of other stuff including Peertube. As a creator, Peertube is nice, but yea, using it as a full time video watching platform just isn't viable rn unfortunately.