Personally I use Nextcloud Tasks and Nextcloud Decks because sync between devices is a key feature for me but if you don't need it you can find better native desktop applications than Nextcloud's web UI.
The article is really interesting, thank you! But it's all about performance it seems. As far as I can understand a decentralized network of small PeerTube instances don't need much work for scaling, what we have to solve instead is rough storage size.
For sure we should improve the support for WebMonetization and get microdonations while streaming but again the main problem remain: the storage cost always increases over the time while the income is always tied to actual views/popularity/donations/whatever at a given time.
The video files have to be removed from the servers, the point is how. In addition to the archiving feature I described the "archived" videos could be streamed from the PCs of people making them available via (Web)Torrent. This should be techically possible since the support for WebTorrent is coming to libtorrent, the library used by many torrent desktop clients, but we would still need a lot of work on PeerTube side.
At that point the PeerTube instances would be a mere interface to stream video stored on people's PCs and eventually caching popular videos automatically on the servers for better performance.
I already discussed this once on GitHub, I don't remember where, sorry.
Indeed I opened the issue on PeerTube Github about IPFS years ago. No, IPFS alone doesn't solve this, it would just be a way to make the federation more robust.
The only solution I can think of is the following: make PeerTube content creators able to "archive" their old videos, maybe automatically when they approach a storage limit. By "archiving" I mean the video files are deleted from the server but the video page with its comments remain. Before archiving the author is prompted to download the video files. If a user open the page of an archived video they can't play it, instead a button is shown to ask the original author to reupload it. The user is then notified that the video is available again. At that point is up to the content creator to reupload the old video and keep it online for a while. One could also reupload the video files because their video is relevant again (think about old news that can return interesting).
Am I wrong or Mastodon's RSS feed doesn't even support images?
As someone who managed a PeerTube instance for a large YouTube channel I have to say the big problem is storage: how are you going to pay for storage that increases with each new video while the income is mostly the same? From a business point of view it's a suicide.
Keep in mind content creators on YouTube produce many gigabytes/week. In a few years they would have to pay hundreds of dollars each week, even when they pause and not producing any new video, when they are getting less donations and so on.
Why should they invest so much money in a PeerTube instance? Only a premium pay-to-view service can justify it and you really need a high cost-to-produce-and-stream-the-video/minutes-of-video ratio to make it convenient, for example documentaries and not lazy records of hours of online debates.
The only plugin still supported is extremely basic. I am referring more to something that allows those who have a WordPress blog to follow other blogs or users of the Fediverse, write not only articles but also "notes" (the ActivityPub objects used by microblogging platforms such as Mastodon and Pleroma), reshare and reply to articles and notes by others etc.
I'm pretty sure it's possible with WordPress.
Lobby WordPress and other publishing platforms to federate all together via ActivityPub?
Imagine that suddenly all WordPress articles and related comments end up in the Fediverse.
This is against human rights, also confirmed by the Council of Europe, period.
7.3 with respect to ensuring high vaccine uptake: 7.3.1 ensure that citizens are informed that the vaccination is NOT mandatory and that no one is politically, socially, or otherwise pressured to get themselves vaccinated, if they do not wish to do so themselves; 7.3.2 ensure that no one is discriminated against for not having been vaccinated, due to possible health risks or not wanting to be vaccinated;
These are not problems of Matrix but of the UI/UX of the clients you are using!
There is, PeerTube developers also provide a script that can import an entire YouTube channel to PeerTube, metadata like description included. The script can be run locally on your PC or on the PeerTube server if you are the admin. The script can also import the videos from a certain date to another one. It doesn't duplicate the videos, so if you set it to run automatically once in a while it will just import new videos.