Peertube

I feel kinda dumb, but how do I sign into my #PeerTube account on the official #app?

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Suggestion Overview:

PeerTube could potentially host and maintain an official, beginner-friendly server, similar in purpose to Mastodon.Social for Mastodon, or Lemmy.World for Lemmy.

Perhaps call it something like Peertube.Video, or something similar.

This server could function as an easy onboarding point for new users, enabling them to sign up and immediately start exploring videos without the need to understand or manage federated server distinctions.

This server could provide an experience akin to YouTube, where users can browse, search, and watch videos from both the local server and federated servers seamlessly.

By simplifying the experience, this initiative could help make PeerTube more appealing to mainstream audiences and lower the barrier to entry.

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Features and Benefits

1. Centralized Onboarding for New Users

• Provide a trusted, official PeerTube instance that's beginner-friendly.
• Serve as a default place where individuals can sign up without having to research or choose from numerous third-party servers (which can be confusing).

2. Discoverability of Videos Across Federated Servers

• Users could watch and search for videos from the official server as well as from federated PeerTube instances without needing to understand server distinctions.
• Implement a streamlined user interface for easy video discovery, resembling YouTube’s intuitive navigation.

3. Support for Technologically Less Savvy Audiences

• Many users, particularly older individuals or those unfamiliar with decentralized platforms, could benefit from a simplified entry point.
• Reduce complexity by hiding the technical aspects of federation for these users while still allowing advanced users to explore federated options if desired.

4. Expand PeerTube’s Reach and Adoption

• By offering an official, centralized entry point, PeerTube could attract more users who otherwise might find the platform intimidating or confusing.
• This initiative could serve as a showcase for PeerTube, demonstrating the power of federated video sharing to a broader audience.

5. Potential Revenue and Sustainability

• The official server could offer optional donations or crowdfunding to cover hosting costs, similar to Mastodon.Social.

Addressing Concerns

1. Maintaining Decentralization Values

• While offering a centralized starting point, the server would remain federated and open, encouraging users to explore other PeerTube instances if they wish.
• This server would not undermine the decentralized nature of PeerTube but rather serve as a gateway to the broader federated ecosystem.

2. Balancing Resources

• To reduce strain, the server’s video hosting capacity could focus on curated or user-uploaded content while still federating videos from other servers for a comprehensive experience.
• Encourage other PeerTube server admins to adopt a similar model to distribute the load.

Closing Thoughts

This initiative could help make PeerTube more accessible while staying true to the values of decentralization. Creating an official, beginner-friendly PeerTube server would not only improve user adoption but also demonstrate PeerTube’s capacity to deliver a federated video-sharing experience that rivals mainstream platforms.

First of all, let me apologize to those people who was affected when PeerTube.wtf initially went down.

I've been working this past month on building and setting up a fresh version of PeerTube.wtf and this time, I won't be relying on decentralized storage 🙃 🙃 🙃

I've been reading a couple of threads on Lemmy, to better understand what people want expect to be able to do on a PeerTube server, so here goes:

• PeerTube.wtf is a platform for general use. Every topic is welcome.

• The Global Search Index is enabled. This means that the search bar will show results from almost 900 PeerTube servers.

• Remote URI/handle search is enabled. This means, if you know the URL/handle of a channel, that's not part of the Global Search Index, you can still find it via the search bar and subscribe to the channel.

• The Public Index is enabled. This means that PeerTube.wtf will federate with almost a 1000 PeerTube servers.

• Audio-only, 360p, 720p, 1080p and 1440p is enabled. This means that videos uploaded, is provided in these resolutions.

• Video transcription is enabled. Will Automatically create subtitles for uploaded/imported VOD videos.

• Live streaming is enabled. Streams are transcoded in 720p and 1080p at 60 FPS.

• A user has 100GB of storage. This is obviously not sustainable, but is subject to change.

FAQ

.wtf?

Yea, it stands for "What The Fediverse". What else could it possibly stand for, that sound as cool?

Where is the server hosted?

It's hosted in Denmark, at my residence. I have 100% ownership and control over it.

What's your specs, bro? The server is assembled inside an Inter-Tech 2U-2404S, with a:

• AMD Ryzen 3 1200 @ 4 cores
• 16GB of RAM
• nVidia Quadro P600 (hardware transcoding)
• 2x120GB SSDs in raid 1 for OS
• 2x4TB HDDs in raid 1 for the video storage

4TB of storage ain't much

That's true, but I will be upgrading the disks eventually.

Why no 4K??

4K takes a lot of space and the majority of users don't have a 4K monitor. In the future, it might change.

I've probably forgotten something, but yea.. Enjoy.

Currently, there's an official PeerTube app, but I have been wondering if they should instead potentially consider an alternative strategy similar to what Lemmy has done.

The proposal is this:

Instead of maintaining an official PeerTube app, what if PeerTube focused instead on being the core system and API, while encouraging third-party developers to create various client apps?

PeerTube could then concentrate on managing and improving the web app, api, etc.

Potential benefits of this approach:

1. Diverse ecosystem of apps catering to different user preferences
2. Reduced workload for the core PeerTube team
3. Increased community involvement and innovation

Potential drawbacks:

1. Lack of a "standard" mobile experience
2. Possible fragmentation of the user base
3. Quality control challenges

What are your thoughts on this idea? Would this approach better serve the PeerTube community and align with the project's goals? How might this impact PeerTube's growth and adoption?

I feel as if the requests for instances hasn't been very productive, so I'd like to ask the community; are there any specific Peertube channels or videos that you've found interesting or worth someone's attention?

I have videos uploaded to a fairly popular and free instance. They've been there for a few weeks, but I can't find them when I search for them at sepiasearch.org.

Does anyone know what could be causing this?

Update:

I have added my instance to the joinpeertube list of instances, as advised by @[email protected]. Now my videos show up properly in SS. Thank you!

I updated my instance to version 7.0.0 of PeerTube , let's have a first look at the changes to the UI/UX together.

I finally was able to fix my long standing problem where viewing private videos from a different continent than the server was hosted on would result in constant buffering.

I haven’t been able to access it for a week

Hey everyone I’m wanting to switch more to using Peertube but I’m having trouble finding a good instance.

The first one I signed up for was Spectra video but it seems to not be federated with the rest of Peertube. I’d like an instance that is so I can see more of what it has to offer any suggestions?

Thanks!

https://lemmy.zip/post/23159363

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19900393

PeerTube is a decentralized and federated alternative to YouTube. The goal of PeerTube is not to replace YouTube but to offer a viable alternative using the strength of ActivityPub and P2P protocols.

Being built on ActivityPub means PeerTube is able to be part of a bigger social network, the Fediverse (the Federated Universe). On the other hand, P2P technologies help PeerTube to solve the issue of money, inbound with all streaming platform : With PeerTube, you don't need to have a lot of bandwidth available on your server to host a PeerTube platform because all users (which didn't disable the feature) watching a video on PeerTube will be able to share this same video to other viewers.

If you are curious about PeerTube, I can't recommend you enough to check the official website to learn more about the project. If after that you want to try to use PeerTube as a content creator, you can try to find a platform available there to register or host yourself your own PeerTube platform on your own server.

The development of PeerTube is actually sponsored by Framasoft, a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, a group of friends convinced that an emancipating digital world is possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on real world and online with and for you!

Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events and Meetup.

If you want to contribute to PeerTube, feel free to:

• report bugs and give your feedback on Github or on our forums
• submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform
• Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide
• Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube.

shared from: https://lemmy.giftedmc.com/post/701784

The peertube kodi addon has been unavailable for a long time and it's sad because peertube has a lot of cool videos.

That's why I decided to make a new one for the python 3 generation of kodi. It is available on the official repository under "next gen peertube addon" or plugin.video. pt

The app is pretty basic but works (tested on kodi for linux). Disclaimer: For some reason, the libreelec version of kodi does not seem to work with it yet. I'm troubleshooting the issue atm.

Feel free to download and test the app, check the source on github and leave a star or support the project if you wish.

Self-hosting your own federated video platform can be really cool. But, what do you do when it acts up? We wrote a guide on how to give your PeerTube server the love it needs.

Status #YouTube-Konsum: Invidious, piped, NewPipe, FreeTube werden geblockt (#Loginzwang mit Googlekonto), #Tor scheint noch nicht geblockt zu werden. Das blockt die behämmerte Werbung natürlich nicht, aber halt ungerichtete, gestern was auf Skandinavisch. Ton aus, warten, nervt, aber generiert keine validen #Trackingdaten!? Ist das auch euer Status?

Hatte YouTube mit Kondom gerade als Fortbildungsmedium z.B. zu IT-Themen entdeckt, und natürlich auch zur Unterhaltung. Musik, Reactions.

Wie kriegen wir die #Contentanbieter ohne unmittelbares #monetäresInteresse bloß ins #Fediverse und / oder wenigstens auf #Twitch, wenigstens als Crossposts, also, parallele Veröffentlichungen? Der ZWANG in die #Feedbackschleifen, für immer mehr Daten in ihre »#KI«-Datenbasen, zeichnet sich immer mehr ab.

Wir fokussieren in der Menschenrechts-Datenschutz-Blase klaro auf Politik/»Brot«. »Spiele« sind genauso wichtig, sie reproduzieren #Kultur.

@digitalcourage @christian @annaelbe @Privacymatters @peertube @[email protected]

#askaquestion #fediverse #peertube
@peertube

Does anyone know where I can create an account for PeerTube and where?

I’m thinking of setting up a PeerTube instance for game-related content. A bit like tilvids.com, but for gaming.

Do you think that it might be of some interest?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15180175

In this case, it's one specific channel: https://diode.zone/c/andybalaam_lectures/videos?s=1. That is, [email protected]. It's run by @[email protected] / @[email protected]

AFAICT, federation hasn't been working from this channel to lemmy for ~3 months, for all the instances I checked (perhaps a particular lemmy version broke things?).

EG:

• the view on lemmy.ml
• on lemm.ee
• on programming.dev
• and on endlesstalk.org

By comparison:

• mastodon.social is up-to-date: https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]
• And on hachyderm.io, following the user (rather than the channel) is also up-to-date: https://hachyderm.io/deck/@[email protected]

I'm not following anything else on peertube so I don't know how common this is (and I couldn't find anything on the GitHub issues), but different behaviour on mastodon and lemmy would superficially indicate that it's a lemmy problem, which would be a shame given that lemmy is much better for consuming peertube.