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Pixelfed Live - simple live-streaming

✨ Easy to use
⚡ OBS supported
✨ Optional live chat
⚡ Fedi + mobile api support
✨ Advanced admin config (limit broadcasts to users w/ 500+ followers, disable replays, etc)
⚡ Simple setup that scales, from a mono deployment to dedicated streaming servers

Shipping soon! #pixelfed #pixelfedLive

Early look at the Pixelfed Live feature
#pixelfed #pixelfedLive
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Whitney Loblaw
Whitney Loblaw
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What does that use in the background? Is there a decentralised way to share the load?
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Esi
Esi
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Any idea how it will look like for other fedi users for example on Mastodon? Would a live streaming post simply have a link to the stream or would there be some kind of embed?

(you've probably answered this hundreds of times already. if so. i am terribly sorry)

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Tio
Tio
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Damn that's cool. @Hypolite Petovan how hard is it to implement such features to Friendica too? :D Can't their work be also implemented to Frriendica? :P Just wondering
@Hypolite Petovan
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Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan
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I have no idea what it entails technically. However, Pixelfed runs on PHP so you can install it alongside Friendica with limited extra dependencies. I’m doing it myself to post my pictures from my phone as it’s cumbersome from Friendica.
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Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan
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I reshare them natively with my Friendica account, yes!
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kalou
kalou
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Why not finish what has been started instead of starting something else which, if it is like the rest, will not be finished... Too bad there was some good stuff for a while. It's a nice project but why go so far when the base is not yet operational? Spreading yourself too thin is just more work. Good luck anyway.
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Jeff Henshaw
Jeff Henshaw
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Wholeheartedly concur. #PixelFed has been in a semi-operational state for so long that it feels like an opportunity is passing. Would love to see a core feature set polished and released, easily set up and administered, and a user base grown. They may contribute as a result. Make no mistake: the vision and hard work that @dansup puts in is amazing. But it’s time for focus. I can’t wait to host my instance in a production environment. Donating to support that (vs. more features)
#pixelfed @dansup
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dansup
dansup
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I'm sorry that you feel that way, and maybe I can help explain my process

Live Stories/live streaming has been planned since 2020, and is being funded by a NLnet grant

That being said, our core features remain a top priority

Earlier this month we shipped a new release with several bug fixes and core improvements*

I'm not sure I'd categorize the current state as semi-operational, everything does work when properly configured.

Easier installation would help alot

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dansup
dansup
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And I look forward to shipping more core improvements, if you have specific issues or thing's you'd like to see in Pixelfed please let me know!

There are a lot of things happening behind the scenes, and it may seem like we're only shipping new features because we don't often announce bug fixes

* - github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/b…


pixelfed/CHANGELOG.md at dev · pixelfed/pixelfed

Photo Sharing. For Everyone. Contribute to pixelfed/pixelfed development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Jeff Henshaw
Jeff Henshaw
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please know @dansup@mastodon.social how appreciated your work is. You’re an amazing developer. The install path is a challenge. See the responses here on masto to your web install announcement for example. Following and commenting is broken for me, probably due to config probs. Now feels like the time to get to a robust baseline and get people using. I’m happy to spend time troubleshooting if helpful.
@dansup
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Jeff Henshaw
Jeff Henshaw
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one specific issue: follow the yunohost instructions to the letter, and you can’t follow anyone on a foreign instance of mastodon or pixelfed afterward.
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Mariusz K. Grzeca
Mariusz K. Grzeca
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My guess is that the official instance is not properly configured then. I had an account there since December 2020 and the comments on the posts never worked properly. I can see the entire discussion under the post on Mastodon, a dozen or so comments from various users, and the same post viewed on the official Pixelfed instance has only 3 random comments taken out of context. I don't comment on anything on pixelfed because I can't see any answers.
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moved to => @kura@hai.z0ne.social
moved to => @kura@hai.z0ne.social
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can you disable the streaming on your instance?

What backend technologies is it using?

Is pixelfed trying to replace peertube in parts? (jw, no judgment)

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pixelfed
pixelfed
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Yes, it's disabled by default.

ffmpeg

Nope! Our live streaming feature is more geared towards Live Stories, similar to IG. Did you know we approached PeerTube back in 2018 about live streaming and they used our blueprint for their implementation? Just ask them 😉

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Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️
Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️
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To use an extreme colloquialism from where and when I was growing up....

Wow! That's sex on a stick! :awesome:

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Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️
Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️
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Any chance this could be interoperable with #Peertube? Ie, people can view a stream from #Pixelfed in #Peertube and vice versa, or comment in streams from the other platform etc.
#PeerTube #pixelfed
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Halcek
Halcek
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This looks very cool to use! Will it deploy #WebTorrent to ease the load on a server, much like @peertube does?

Implementing something like github.com/feross/simple-peer or github.com/novage/p2p-media-lo… in the background would be a massive help.


GitHub - feross/simple-peer: 📡 Simple WebRTC video, voice, and data channels

📡 Simple WebRTC video, voice, and data channels. Contribute to feross/simple-peer development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#webtorrent @PeerTube
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Erik ✅
Erik ✅
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Unfortunately, Pixelfed is losing more and more of its profile.

What is the main purpose and function of Pixelfed ? Chat ? Live-Streaming ? Really?! I am sorry to say that, but there already many, open source projects out there, which do these things perfectly since many years. there is no need for an application, which does a litte bit of everything - honestly, that's a waste of development resources.

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