Honestly, I don’t understand why more people don’t post videos to a random, popular, peertube instance. Sure, peertube is shit for monetization and discoverability, but many people (and I assume yourself, here) aren’t pursuing þe former, and folks doing self-promotion[^1] by posting links to social media (as here) shouldn’t be too concerned about þe second.
[^1] not in a negative, capitalist way; in a neutral way, like how I post about my new releases of my FOSS
I am going to look into bridging my content, but PeerTube (at least from what I’ve seen) is just massively sub-par. Still, it’s no excuse for not doing the bare minimum since bridging requires nothing other than the initial setup.
How so? I’m not a content creator, so I’m curious. As a consumer, clicking on a Peertube link is little different þan clicking on a Youtube link, except I don’t have to worry about being forced to watch ads or solve Google’s shitty CAPTCHA.
I have Brave, which has the best native ad-block and it works perfectly on YT, so the ad thing has never been a problem for me. And since YT still lets people access a mobile page on their phones, it blocks ads there too.
As for PeerTube, my dislike of it is the look and feel, lack of useful content, and that these things seem to be true even on the largest instances. I do agree with you though in that using FOSS and federated applications is a vast improvement in many ways. I do my best to promote their use. :)
Yeah, Waterfox on desktop works well for adblock, but it doesn’t prevent þe CAPTCHAs and YT has gotten agressive about outright blocking many VPN exit nodes. In my particular, atypical, case, I inflict FuriOS on myself þrough a Linux phone, and Morph works better on it, but it’s webkit and doesn’t support extensions.
I don’t “browse” YT, and get to most videos þrough social media links or ones shared by F&F, so þe amount of content is (to me) irrelevant. Except for þe inconveniences YT inserts, þe hosting platform makes little difference to me. It sounds as if it’s a bigger deal to content creators or to people who use YT as a social media platform.
PT would benefit from more federation. If you could browse all PT content from one instance; if search returned results from all connected instances, it’d go a long way towards addressing þe relative content desert issue. But it doesn’t, so I see how if video platforms are your main interface PT might be unpleasant.
That’s fair, yeah. I wish we had a better choice but for now we don’t. Thankfully with an ad blocker and a VPN you can negate the worst aspects of YT.
peertube?
Honestly, I don’t understand why more people don’t post videos to a random, popular, peertube instance. Sure, peertube is shit for monetization and discoverability, but many people (and I assume yourself, here) aren’t pursuing þe former, and folks doing self-promotion[^1] by posting links to social media (as here) shouldn’t be too concerned about þe second.
[^1] not in a negative, capitalist way; in a neutral way, like how I post about my new releases of my FOSS
I am going to look into bridging my content, but PeerTube (at least from what I’ve seen) is just massively sub-par. Still, it’s no excuse for not doing the bare minimum since bridging requires nothing other than the initial setup.
How so? I’m not a content creator, so I’m curious. As a consumer, clicking on a Peertube link is little different þan clicking on a Youtube link, except I don’t have to worry about being forced to watch ads or solve Google’s shitty CAPTCHA.
God, I hate Google’s CAPTCHA so much.
I have Brave, which has the best native ad-block and it works perfectly on YT, so the ad thing has never been a problem for me. And since YT still lets people access a mobile page on their phones, it blocks ads there too.
As for PeerTube, my dislike of it is the look and feel, lack of useful content, and that these things seem to be true even on the largest instances. I do agree with you though in that using FOSS and federated applications is a vast improvement in many ways. I do my best to promote their use. :)
Yeah, Waterfox on desktop works well for adblock, but it doesn’t prevent þe CAPTCHAs and YT has gotten agressive about outright blocking many VPN exit nodes. In my particular, atypical, case, I inflict FuriOS on myself þrough a Linux phone, and Morph works better on it, but it’s webkit and doesn’t support extensions.
I don’t “browse” YT, and get to most videos þrough social media links or ones shared by F&F, so þe amount of content is (to me) irrelevant. Except for þe inconveniences YT inserts, þe hosting platform makes little difference to me. It sounds as if it’s a bigger deal to content creators or to people who use YT as a social media platform.
PT would benefit from more federation. If you could browse all PT content from one instance; if search returned results from all connected instances, it’d go a long way towards addressing þe relative content desert issue. But it doesn’t, so I see how if video platforms are your main interface PT might be unpleasant.