Admittedly a risky crosspost, but cannot find conflicting community rules. I believe the possible discussion justifies it.
cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/peertube@piefed.blahaj.zone/p/999813/what-s-stopping-you-from-using-peertube
Or ‘What is PeerTube lacking that you simply cannot do without?’
I believe it’s a safe assumption that fediverse users want to move away from the monopolies and closed gardens so often associated with video streaming, and yet it’s not a task that’s ever been made easy. Maybe an ounce of inspiration is the cue we need, and so my question to you is; What’s Stopping you from using PeerTube?
I’d like it to be built entirely around a P2P network of easily self-hostable instances as a distributed storage/indexing backend, and a local desktop app as a suggested entry point, but that’s not the case, unfortunately.
With its current architecture, I simply haven’t managed to go trough the trial of finding a suitable instance! So if I’m watching PeerTube videos, it’s only occasionally, when a link was posted elsewhere, as I’m lacking a proper entry point to continuously interact with it, let alone uploading.
My peerness is too small
lack of videos
videos ain’t that the truth
I also find the federation makes it even more fragmented and difficult to find content from the few creators I’d follow (mostly reposts from Youtube).
And it’s not even like the different instances follow a theme consistently.
It should just be you check on a bunch of instances and you get a combined feed of them all. If thats possible on the app, it isnt obvious enough.
I think the architecture of federation is flawed. Different instances should share the same common elements while each hosting their own.
On Lemmy there shouldn’t be 5 different subs of the same thing where everyone just goes on the most popular one. Everyone should be rehosting the same sub on their own… I mean that’s how the internet works. That’s DNS is shared…
Peertube’s main usecase for me would be links based video hosting. So if I wanted to embed or link a video in a webpage, or a course moodle.
I also can’t seem to figure it out…
I tried registering on a couple of different instances, but none were allowing any new users. So no liking or disliking videos, for me…
I also can’t seem to search across different platforms, which kinda kills it for me tbh.
The times I tried it I did not see anything remotely interesting. Then I checked again after knowing how these federated networks work and it was the same but I wondered, do I have to make an account somewhere in order to not having to check every single instance? Does it even use instances the same way as lemmy or piefed? How do I find more instances?
In the end, there were too many questions and very little desire to look for the answers.
I only use youtube for a handful of specific channels (including livestreams for skateboarding events), not for general browsing. None of these channels are cloned on peertube last I checked. I don’t have the equipment or knowledge to host a server myself and even if I did I would feel weird cloning the channels I watch because youtube is the main source of revenue for them.
I support most of the channels I watch on patreon and do remind them occasionally that it would be nice to move away from youtube.
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I’ve tried to use peertube a few times. I just can’t figure it out. I open to and search for things like “Ms. Rachel”, for my daughter but nothing comes up. I don’t use Youtube much and would like to stop entirely, but I just can’t find any of the stuff I’m looking for on peertube
there’s no content, because there’s no audience, because there’s no content.
the support youtube gives just in terms of traffic and storage is something peertube can never hope to achieve without big centralised instances.
Eh. I think the bigger deal is that the large platforms, including YouTube, give large content creators a cut of the ads. YouTube has had to deal with competition and part of that competition has been to pay content creators, even if it isn’t a lot.
well yeah, if there’s no pay there’s no way to sustainably produce for the platform.
Direct people to Kofi, Liberapay, and Patreon, and have Peertube for outreach like on Youtube
you need an audience first. the conversion rate is usually about 1%.
The majority of YouTube content has never produced a dime for the creators.
The majority of creators get a minority of views.
There’s no content because there would be no reason to put your content on it even if it had the users.
Being ad-free is great for the viewers, but it’s problematic for creators. Creators who already have something working for them on YouTube need to completely change their model if they now need to rely solely on donation/patreon. That’s especially hard for smaller channels who are still building viewership.
The long and short of it is, it’s just harder to make content if you can’t at least get some ad revenue going.
As a result, this is not a chicken and egg thing. It is not “there’s no content, because there’s no audience, because there’s no content”.
Instead it’s “there’s no audience, because there’s no content, because there’s no ad revenue”. And now we have a real conceptual problem with the platform.
yeah it’s a “if it’s free, you’re the product” thing but with nobody actually selling.
The only people I want to watch content from are not publishing on peer tube.
I intended on uploading content but many instances (as far as I have seen) have limits.
This is fine and makes sense, but I have no idea how long/bulky any of my content will be, so I’m wary to get started.
Because it functions poorly as a way to see a lot of content that I want to see.
If there is a way to see/browse all of the content available on peertube all at once, I am unaware of it.
If there’s a way to curate my feed such that it pulls from multiple decentralized instances, I am unaware of it.
Make it very easy for me to see everything, make it easy for me to curate my feed from that everything available.
I’ve tried searching PeerTube a number of times, basically once a year, but no matter what topic I search for all I get are weird, stupid videos not even remotely related to what i want. From what i can tell there is no high quality content on the platform, and that makes me sad so i give up on it very quickly.
Peertube is Youtube 20 years ago.
Cool but lacks of content and creators
WebTorrent is a challenge at times, and the lack of content. Show me daily uploads of a let’s play gamer for over a month and I’ll get back in. I do believe in the tech, I support decentralization. But until the content is there, the platform has no use to me.
