If you could improve PeerTube, what would you improve?

[astro_ray@piefed.social]

Misskey has a pretty great support for peertube.

[fxomt@lemm.ee]

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

[mitm0@lemmy.world]

Correction (De)Centralized index

[mitm0@lemmy.world]

Some kind of Monetary-support system

[staticfalconar@lemmy.world]

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.

[solarmonkey@slrpnk.net]

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 couldn’t, because all of them had some caveat or blurb or whatever that made me go “nope, probably not here..”

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 weren’t 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 I’ll browse it if it ever picks up, but frankly the process of signing up to be a content creator is far too onerous.

Maybe that’s a problem with the instance owners and how they have things set up, maybe with the way the whole platform works, I don’t really know. It was pretty consistent though, so I assume it’s a platform problem.

[meldrik@lemmy.wtf]

Maybe Liberapay built-in? I’m sure a plugin could fix that.

[ulrich@feddit.org]

1. Most people who submit videos do it because they enjoy it, not to start a career (or at least it doesn't begin that way).
2. Most creators at this point have sponsor-spots in their videos. That's still monetization they control.
3. Donations are a thing. Both to Framasoft (Peertube developers) as well as direct to the creators themselves. This still makes up a large portion of creator income.
4. Personal sales. Lots of creators have their own products these days. Some of them are novel and others are high quality.
5. Affiliate links to product promotions.

Peertube makes it really easy to promote whatever you want in the "support" button.

So really the only thing they're missing out on is adsense. Which, fuck Google. And is only a small (but not insignificant) portion of their income.

[meldrik@lemmy.wtf]

We had vidcommons.org once, that hosted a lot of CC content. Unfortunately the owner couldn’t afford to keep it running.

If you now a source of CC videos, let me know.

[meldrik@lemmy.wtf]

There is an index maintained by Framasoft (devs of PeerTube), but it is something the servers need to enable. A lot don’t.

[ulrich@feddit.org]

https://sepiasearch.org/ is already integrated into the app.

[meldrik@lemmy.wtf]

What’s a mainstream instance?

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

That's cool and all, but I don't use an app, nor should I be expected to download software just to use a website. I use my browser.

[mitm0@lemmy.world]

I wish there was a libre one-time payment software

[whyflip@lemmy.world]

What's peer tube?

[asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev]

FAQ | JoinPeerTube

A free software to take back control of your videos! With more than 600,000 hosted videos, viewed more than 70 millions times and 150,000 users, PeerTube is the decentralized free software alternative to videos platforms developed by Framasoft

JoinPeerTube (joinpeertube.org)

[prodigalfrog@slrpnk.net]

There's Sepia Search, but I don't really understand why that's not just built into the Peertube UI itself.

[krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Better federation with eachother, a way for monetisation.

[fxomt@lemm.ee]

Yeah in some instances it is, but it's usually broken.

I especially wish i could actually interact with those videos from my account, such as liking or commenting. There are three types of instances: no sign ups, outdated or no content on them.

[sith@lemmy.zip]

Better federation and search. Make it easier for content creators and instance runners to monetize. Make it easier to script your own feed/recommendations.

All of the above is true for all software on the fediverse.

Seems like the only ones who really benefit from PeerTube right now are right-wing extremists. The only large Swedish instances are far-right. And they are big because of content supply and demand.