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Tell them you love me (trailer) - videos.trom.tf/w/u6rLa4DT6vkkZ…
What a crazy documentary....And people still need to watch movies?! Reality is far more complex, interesting, weird and all that. Watch it here - videoneat.com/documentaries/26…
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Tell them you love me (trailer)
Watch it trade-free at: videoneat.com/documentaries/26…A professor has a relationship with a nonverbal man who has cerebral palsy. Their affair leads to a criminal trial over disability and consent. The film shows interviews and footage that present both perspectives.
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Friendica package for YunoHost. Contribute to YunoHost-Apps/friendica_ynh development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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in reply to Tio • • •In my very small channel I upload exclusively to peertube, but unfortunately I get very few views and almost no comments
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in reply to Tio • • •peertube.uno/c/evilworld_chann…
I've started recently and my videos are in italian
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in reply to Tio • • •I agree, we need much more promotion so it can take traction, that seems to be the biggest hurdle at the moment.
In it's current state #peertube and it's connection to the #fediverse via #activitypub is already far superior to #youtube ! In addition to so many other features:)
One thing I think that is really needed is perhaps a way to "boost" content that could point to a central database on #joinpeertube so we would have a way of discovering popular videos.
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