Hello fediverse!
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I'd love to see an official *Desktop* Peertube app, with video viewing, commenting and uploading functionality, but also with a single configuration click that let people automatically seed Peertube videos from their desktop.
It could be taken one step further afterwards, by letting instances upload directly to the shared community storage rather than needing their own. You'd see an explosion of content, which would bring more viewers.
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You may need to provide a benefit to bandwidth providers if the network started getting saturated though. Non financial/vanity, so it didn't encourage fraud, but maybe something like badges when commenting, based on what percentile they were in for providing community bandwidth.
Down the line it would also be great to see Podcasting 2.0 style streaming sats for viewed minutes, but that's probably better off offloaded to a Peertube plugin.
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@Blort These are fantastic points. Video storage, uploading and streaming is quite expensive to do and needs some kind of business model to support it at scale. This is one reason why I think a federated Patreon would be a huge unlock for expansion and health of the fediverse and video creators.
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Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️replied to Mike McCue last edited by [email protected]
Absolutely. Some form of non-advertising based monetization, really is crucial. A federated Patreon would be a fabulous step forward, especially if it could incorporate podcasting 2.0 style SAT streaming. High friction one off donations will only ever get a project so far.
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kylo :verified:replied to Evan Prodromou last edited by
I think they're looking to learn about how the Fediverse is evolving with an eye to advocate for projects that interest them.
I felt making you aware of this could be helpful and interesting for everyone as some of these projects may involve advocating for changes to ActivityPub itself.
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Fundboard.social? Just sayin'....
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@Blort I've heard this concept of "podcasting 2.0" recently. What does it mean?
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It's a set of extensions for RSS. Some of them add features like transcripts, subtitles, livestreaming, episode comments and my personal fave, the ability for listeners/viewers to stream Sats (ie millionths of a Bitcoin) to content creators based on how long a listener/viewer listens/watches.
It's reinvigorated some podcasting substantially, and there's potential to do the same for visual media like Peertube too. I'm curious if it could be extended to a more eco friendly alt coin.
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Maybe some storage based coin, rather than a computation based one?
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Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️replied to Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ last edited by [email protected]
You can see what apps currently support Podcasting 2.0, and which features over here:
https://podcastindex.org/appsEDIT: Wild! I just saw Peertube there and it already supports streaming sats! That could make an interesting business, setting up a host with Sat streaming by default, so creators would get paid by viewers and hosting could also automatically be paid from the BTC account.
We just need SAT streaming added to the upcoming official #Peertube app, to make it more common here.
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Evan Prodromoureplied to kylo :verified: last edited by
@kylo no, they asked for the names of cool accounts.
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@[email protected] @dansup @[email protected] @piefedadmin piefed is great. I’m trying to follow some of these communities on mastodon but having difficulty. Are there specific ones you recommend that work well in mastodon?
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@mike You can follow a PieFed community in Mastodon although piefed.social doesn't have many to follow!
The trick is to put the url of the community into the search of your Mastodon instance, then the Follow button appears.
I just made a test post in https://piefed.social/c/playground and it appeared in my Mastodon instance (see attached).