cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9820251

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.

Sorry if this is asked a lot but I'm looking for a peertube instance to mirror my youtube videos to.

I upload a mix of videos about games, dev logs, music, and occasional random stuff I made (including ytps). So a general purpose instance with longevity would be ideal. Thanks!

Hey everyone, I saw this post about peertube channels being able to be seen as communities on lemmy, but I noticed that the comments don't show on the community post.

I was wondering if anyone else was tracking anything about this already, or any other peertube to lemmy integrations, like the embedded video playback from peertube (new feature) or peertube's remote account features (comment using any fediverse account) not working with Lemmy users (at least not me right now).

Matrix chat about it

Update 01: Being tracked here on Lemmy's repo. Still interested in everyone's thoughts.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/6391899

I am thinking of recording a series of episodes where I try to beat factorio with the smallest possible ore settings. It would be vanilla factorio.

In this video I show what the voice recording might sound like, but I need your feedback if this is pleasant to watch/hear etc.

This is the first time of me doing anything like this.

PeerTube, the decentralized and open-source alternative to video broadcasting services such as YouTube, Vimeo, and Twitch, has launched its version 6. This comes after only two minor versions were released, with PeerTube 5.2 launched in June and PeerTube 5.1 in March.

The 5.1 version introduced an “asking for an account” feature, a “back-to-live” button, and enhanced the authentication plugin. The 5.2 version improved RSS feeds, added an option to set livestream replay privacy, enhanced mouse-free navigation, and notably, introduced a remote transcoding feature.

The latest release, PeerTube v6, provides users with the ability to password-protect videos, a new video storyboard feature (to preview videos on mouse hover), and the option to upload a new version of a video (to correct or update it, for example). It also introduces video chapters among other features.

In addition to these new features, PeerTube v6 has removed WebTorrent to focus on HLS, and features an enhanced video player. It also comes with improved SEO and accessibility, along with a host of other changes, improvements, and bug fixes. Finally, PeerTube has conducted stress tests and provided performance and configuration recommendations for its live-streaming feature.

from alternativeto.net/news/2023/11…

@peertube

Hi everyone, I recently made a peertube instance and I see the potential!

But the discoverability is absolutely lackluster. It must be possible somehow to see and sort videos that are out there.

If I search for minecraft videos on my instance for example, it obviously shows only the other instances I federate with.

But to find new instances I search through joinpeertube.org‘s elasticsearch and get the most unrelated stuff.

I was recently asked to submit a pr to framasofts gitlab but the signup/signin is bugged.

This is what I mean with stuff needs to be easier. Any ideas?

I'm new at both PeerTube and at Piped/NewPipe frontends. I've always wanted to support PeerTube but every time I browse instances I see very little content and it's especially barren for the type of stuff I like. Not really a tech guy, even though I'm learning some programming my background is that of a Literature teacher that likes gaming (especially indie gaming, but some AAA RPG/JRPG/narrative/strategy gaming is cool too) and video essays about anything that have at least a bit of humanities bend.

I've started using Piped to watch YT videos (I don't use NewPipe since I rarely use my phone, more of a desktop guy). I've heard you can watch both YT and PeerTube videos on NewPipe. Can you do the same at Piped? And if so, what would be the best way to find channels with the aforementioned characteristics?

Stuff in Spanish is fine too since that's my actual language but I assume there's not much stuff in Spanish in PeerTube and therefore even less quality content and even less quality content that caters to my specific likes. So I foresee it'll mostly be in English like in YouTube.

I want to download my favorite debates and old videos from YouTube to upload to Odysee or PeerTube. Can I do that without getting in some sort of legal trouble? Thanks

Looking for a PeerTube instance for game devlogs.

I have a crafts channel on makertube.net already but would prefer to spread myself around in case one server goes down. Also tbh I'm not even sure devlogs would count as "making" anyway.

Tried the instance finder on the PT homepage but it's pretty useless so if anyone knows where is stable and welcomes this kind of content I'd appreciate it! Thanks.

@peertube #GameDev #PeerTube #Devlog #Fediverse

Preferably based in a based jurisdiction - one that doesn't take down claims.

Thank you.

How much time did you wait?

The way I see it, the mobile app ecosystem for PeerTube has yet to take off, in spite of the fact that it has a seemingly decent API. More people appear to be using the platform than ever before, which is great, but we still seem to be lacking a general ecosystem that Mastodon or even Lemmy has.

To my knowledge, these are the only apps I've ever found that work with PeerTube:

• Thorium: Supports video playback and sign-in, doesn't support comments or replies or seemingly any social features?
• P2Play: Seems to support commenting, but abandoned 3 years ago or so.
• NewPipe: Actually pretty good as a player, but not really designed around the social API at all. Makes sense, given the app is more of a "download and play videos without an account" type of video app.
• FediLab: Supposedly supports PeerTube, actually seems like a featureful client, but I've always kind of felt iffy about whether a general multi-platform app could make for a good experience.

It just feels as though we're lacking a quality mobile client for PeerTube, and I think it's a missed opportunity. Do we currently now of any other efforts out there to build for the platform?

cross-posted from: https://diode.zone/videos/watch/0e60bcb9-10bd-4122-aca9-fcf06d5404f0

Playlist

Hello I am recording a few episodes of Krastorio 2.

I am playing with the companion mods that are recommended by the Krastorio team. No other mods are used.

Let's see where this takes us!

Youtube, for so many years, was just too good. Yes, they changed the 5 star rating system to likes and dislikes and a few years later disabled dislikes altogether, but their algorithm mostly digs up interesting content and it just works for creators and viewers.

This might change soon. Their new strategy to disallow ad-blockers will frustrate a certain kind of viewer. Those who dislike surveillance and like open-source tech, those who use uBlock Origin and know why.

Just like a few years ago mastodon suddenly reached a certain kind of popularity, because twitter had their first big fuckup, maybe Peertube is next. It certainly is the most polished decentralized solution that doesn't use a blockchain. Creators or fans could easily host their own videos, fans can watch it, without ads.

Hi folks!

Preamble

I have recently made my own instance and enabled federation. It's working well. But if I go to videos, all the other instances' videos are shown first. I'd like to boost the local content before the federated stuff so people can actually see it.

Remediation steps

I searched for a plugin that does featured stuff but only found a three year old one of which I don't know if it is safe to use in terms of stability and such.

What I would like

Sorting by downloads, "likes", update as well as adding comments. Filtering by "official" or other others. Plugin Search actually showing "official" if I search for it instead of a blank page.

What I need to know

Is there something like this already or should I try opening an issue with the creators at framasoft?

Have a good one!

I intend to share with my friends (or have my replays stored somewhere easily accessible) but I refuse to use Youtube and I can't self-host a Peertube instance just for this purpose at the moment.

Does anyone know of an instance where I can just upload occasional videos without limits? I know storage is expensive and I don't want to abuse it either, but there must be some instances that allow this.

I released some more videos! Full playlist is here: https://diode.zone/w/p/9mTsxbrskMB6gZp1NMUZXF

This is something I've been trying to figure out on my end. I run a community instance for creators at https://spectra.video, and so far it's been a pretty good situation. The community is fairly cozy, we don't have many problems with spam, and we connect with a handful of really good partner instances that we like and trust.

Here's the thing: my server keeps growing.

In like the last few months, my server's user count has ballooned up to 320 users, from about 50 or so. That's in spite of the fact that I'm incredibly conservative about user registration, and screen just about everyone who registers to cut down on trolls and spam.

Object Storage is sitting at half a terrabyte for video, which in the grand scheme of things is actually not terrible. But, the server is not beefy for constant video transcoding, and setting up infra to make that pain easier is not cheap. At all.

At the end of the day, I'm going to have to think about migrating to a more powerful VPS, to setting up runners on some kind of cloud GPU architecture, to thinking about whether to segment out my database to some kind of externally hosted solution. All of this stuff is expensive, migration is messy, and trying to support all of this seems complicated.

I feel like, within the next few months, we're going to see an influx of YouTube migrations similar to what happened with Reddit and Twitter. I don't think any particular instance can truly be ready for that to happen, but I'd like to at least try to prepare for the worst.

Is anybody else thinking about how to deal with this?