How should one start using peertube if they want to make videos?
can you make whatever or are there rules to peertube, and why does everyone say its better than youtube? I want to make gameplay videos someday but i wasnet sure if i should use peertube, youtube, or some other thing.
what are the best peertube channels?
or would it be better to just watch videos on there?
also i could use advice on peertube/youtube or something of that nature.
Peertube is a federated video platform. That means that like lemmy or mastodon, there’s a huge number of different instances. My instance for example, is following 103 other instances, and is followed by 73 other instances. Each instance is hosted by different people, and each have different rules.
Because of the wide variety of instances, it’s truly distributed and so all kinds of things are hosted there, from cat videos to porn and other stuff you typically can’t host on other platforms such as covid conspiracy theory videos.
One peertube channel that is similar to what you’re talking about is minetest videos: [email protected] It’s consistently trending on my feed (but different sites will have different feeds based on what they are or are not federated to).
I think your best bet is to see what’s out there, because there’s a lot of content but it’s sort of like old youtube.
If I were to become a youtuber today, I’d diversify. You can create a youtube channel and mirror it on peertube, for example. I think that some other alt-tech sites like rumble and bitchute have similar features as well, so you could set up a workflow where you post a video and have it show up on a number of different platforms.
The reason peertube is better than youtube is the same reason lemmy is better than reddit and mastodon is better than twitter; It’s libre, distributed, and generally not algorithmically driven.
Oh, one other neat thing: If you ever have a peertube video just blow up and become super popular, peertube uses torrent style technology so video watchers automatically share pieces of the video with one another. Just a little neat thing that helps scale a video site whereas it’s generally tough once you start getting popular.
Peertube is the fediverse equivalent of youtube. So like Lemmy, you pick an instance, follow their rules, and post content. Like Lemmy, you will reach a smaller audience than the proprietary platform (in this case, youtube).
If you want to remove google from your life, or can’t be bothered with the anti consumer bullshit of proprietary platforms like youtube, then use Peertube.
If you don’t care about the above, and just want to reach a larger audience, use youtube.
I feel like PeerTube hasn’t broken through yet in the way Mastodon has, and Lemmy is kind-of broaching on. Mastodon itself is heavy for what it does. I need 8GB of RAM, >600GB of storage, and 2 CPU cores to run a 100 person instance. Lemmy is leaner (as well as some microblog style alternatives to Mastodon like Misskey / Pleroma). Peertube, on the other hand, can only get so lean. Hosting video content is orders of magnitude more intensive than hosting a text-based message board. It is much more costly to do this, and to compete with platforms like YouTube, it is not sufficient for just spin up a single instance. You also need to work out CDNs, caching, load balancing, etc.
Like Jack said, I’d just find an instance you vibe with and post stuff there, but it will take a lot of resources to grow the network as a whole.
I have confidence it’ll get there someday. Remember that YouTube started out as a small, unknown service in the days before ubiquitous cloud computing and storage providers. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
I wouldn’t be so sure. I too, hope it will get there some day. But honestly, many creators are trying to make money with their videos or earn a living by making videos. This isn’t possible on Peertube and there is no simple solution. (Patreon seems not enough and advertising is difficult and not liked in the fediverse).
This means all those video creators and hence their followers will not choose Peertube.
Perhaps, or perhaps it will be like Lemmy/kbin where people are reinvigorated to create simply for the pleasure of creating, whereas they only preciously scrolled anonymously. You may not remember, but there was a time where YouTube was new, you were not making any money from your videos and yet people made all sorts of things. There was also Newgrounds and eBaum’s World and I’m sure a few others I forgot.
Sure, if they gained traction, they’d make a business out of it, but there was no algorithm to worry about or analytics to monitor. The current corporate options are far from the only possible solution and it will fade in time just like everything else has.
Well, i remember those times. I’d miss a few people who earn money and make entertaining stuff, like ElectroBOOM or Mark Rober doing squirrel mazes or annoy porch pirtates, Maker’s Muse 3d-printing puzzles for wild parrots… People shooting documentaries. We’d lose some of those people, because they’d need to work a real job. Maybe they’d still make a video every now and then… And for some videos you need funding. I think Mark Rober can probably still ‘waste’ 10000$ for a video because he can promote himself and the stuff he sells, but nobody else can. Same for things like people buying things and test and compare them independently. (Like computer components. PC magazines used to do stuff like that, but they also still struggle with earning money.)
On the flip side… We’d get rid of all the content farms at once. All those life hacks that don’t work. All the fake stuff that’s only there because the video takes 5min to make and some stupid(?) people watch it. It would be gone instantly. And all the reaction streamer people, too.
I really love things people create of their own accord. Like old youtube videos. Or art like music, published under a creative commons license. Cory Doctorow publishing novels you can download them for free. The funny Sysadmin stories from usenet times. All the free software out there. I really (figuratively) have no clue why people use something like windows instead of linux. it’s really awesome. I prefer the free software video editors like Kdenlive. I wouldn’t want to use some proprietary one.
There is great stuff out there, that isn’t based on the business model of selling something now. Or tracking people and advertising stuff to them. I’ve lost track of what i was trying to say. The world would be kind of a different place. I don’t know if better or worse would be correct categories. But certainly different.
well, the nice thing about peertube is: it’s supposed to be peer to peer, like torrent. you don’t need to work out CDNs, caching, load balancing etc because all the viewers can help sharing the videos. (other instances can, too but you need to enable that redundancy per video or instance)
of course that has limits and doesn’t scale in some circumstances. but that’s the idea.
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