It is hard, video is the most data heavy type of social meda, so I think we should keep our expectations reasonable.
That being said, Peertube is already pretty damn cool. The foundations are there and it is really exciting.
One of the clear benefits to Peertube’s architecture is how video content is naturally enhanced by being linked to from other other places (like lemmy). Peertube embraces that and for a lot of communities centered around video creators I think that cleanness and simplicity as a nexus point is going to start eventually making Peertube more attractive as a base way to link to a specific video even if most of their viewers actually watch it on youtube.
From there the path to becoming more widely used as a video platform I think is clear.
I totally agree! I run my own PeerTube instance and it has been so much fun to see people discovering my videos and live streams. And also finding funny/cool/interesting videos. Where no one is worried about engagement, the algorithm, monetization, etc.
Only option I see in the foreseeable future is odyssee (a good sized but still not big youtube alt) gets wildly popular, gets a load of market shareholders, and worries enough about public image to kick the nazi punks off.
Or dailymotion dials back some of its restrictions. Either or
I don’t know how to make PeerTube bigger, but I don’t see a better option for the Internet’s future than fediverse.
It is hard, video is the most data heavy type of social meda, so I think we should keep our expectations reasonable.
That being said, Peertube is already pretty damn cool. The foundations are there and it is really exciting.
One of the clear benefits to Peertube’s architecture is how video content is naturally enhanced by being linked to from other other places (like lemmy). Peertube embraces that and for a lot of communities centered around video creators I think that cleanness and simplicity as a nexus point is going to start eventually making Peertube more attractive as a base way to link to a specific video even if most of their viewers actually watch it on youtube.
From there the path to becoming more widely used as a video platform I think is clear.
I totally agree! I run my own PeerTube instance and it has been so much fun to see people discovering my videos and live streams. And also finding funny/cool/interesting videos. Where no one is worried about engagement, the algorithm, monetization, etc.
Only option I see in the foreseeable future is odyssee (a good sized but still not big youtube alt) gets wildly popular, gets a load of market shareholders, and worries enough about public image to kick the nazi punks off.
Or dailymotion dials back some of its restrictions. Either or