I love #PeerTube as a project, and have been running an instance basically forever, but my experience on finding stuff to watch is almost as difficult as it is to find people who want to be part of my instance.
Make no mistake: I can basically afford to run my instance for years to come, and plan to keep it on for some time. But, I feel as though my attempt to make a little community for video creators just isn't really progressing in any way. It feels really frustrating.
Making videos is fun, but it also feels like a lot of effort for very little payoff in my case. Every now and then, I make a new effort, but it just feels like I'm politely speaking into the void.
Maybe I'm just bad at this.
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Sean Tilley
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in reply to Lien Rag • • •I do, I wrote a big article about the content situation on PeerTube a while back, and SepiaSearch was something I touched on.
Sepia is...not very good for discovery.
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PeerTube's Content Wasteland
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Unknown parent • • •Maybe. As an admin, you kind of have to make an effort to follow a bunch of other places first, just to ensure that you and other people on your instance have something to watch.
My instance follows 40 others, and it still feels like a slow trickle sometimes.
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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •I love the peertube's idea too. As a user thought, using old computers most of the time and having an unstable connexion, peertube is problematic. I very often need to stop watching from peertube and look for the equivalent on youtube because I'm stuck loading a video. Even when I need to extract it, I can usually find more appropriate lightweight format from some heavyweight website than the equivalent peertube video.
To that point selfhosted htlm5 directdownload video felt better. :(
Sean Tilley
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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •I mean there is the bandwith issue, there is also the optimisation of the videoreader, my computer fan goes out of control and I can't do anything else.
And the videos format available... When you get like me with 100 to less ko/s you can't just go for most peertube video without screaming in pain most of the time because the only option is 720p and can get extra-heavy (sometimes >1Go for <1h videos)
So yeah, I wish I used peertube most of the time. In practicality, I can't :s
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in reply to γͺγγ₯γΌπ΅πΈ • • •That's okay, you pointed out an important issue, too.
Maybe I'll look into adding some lower resolution options for my instance, just keeping the problem you described in mind. π
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in reply to Boiling Steam • • •Yeah, I actually feel like a simple, optional recommendation algorithm could actually be a good thing for discovery.
Maybe that could start off as a plugin?
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in reply to Speak softly love π±π° • • •well, if you'd ever like an account, I run Spectra, and we keep a pretty chill environment. It's at least a good place for user accounts, if all you want to do is watch something.
Let me know if you're ever interested, it's an open offer with no pressure intended.
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Unknown parent • • •Yeah, that's fair. I try to do a good job running @spectravideo, and only block the really nasty instances. If you're ever curious about having an account, it's not a problem for me to hook you up.
It doesn't magically fix any complaints, mind you. π
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in reply to Sean Tilley • • •> but it also feels like a lot of effort for very little payoff
This. I've had some ideas for video's, but in the end I just do something else because it feels like too much work. I know it's a matter of "just get starting", but there are other things I like to do as well, and then I end up choosing the other thing
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in reply to mmu_man • • •Someone else brought up SepiaSearch earlier in the thread, so I'll bring up my point again: as an effort, I respect Sepia's attempt to solve a core problem with the platform. However, as a solution to the discovery problem, it's not very good.
deadsuperhero.com/peertube-conβ¦
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in reply to Nyla Smokeyface :heart_ace: • • •I actually don't have a problem with doing that. Some people want to get their stuff out to the greatest number of audiences, and I have no disrespect for people who take this approach. I even do that sometimes.
It's just that I think something that could give PeerTube a lot of staying power is exclusive creators and videos, and that an active community of people making videos in this space would be a big step towards making the video part of the fediverse healthy and active.
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Mark Shane Hayden
in reply to Sean Tilley • • •I would use Youtube as a gateway to a peertube channel. Instead of outright cross-posting I would put only partial content on Youtube, tailored to appease the Gods of the Algorithm and Content Matching.
I would then link to or mention the full-featured or re-cut stuff available on Peertube. That way you could find an audience and have a way to deliver content that is interesting, in-depth etc without being buried by the clickbait or suppressed/altered/removed due to copyright actions.
(note I am not talking about willful/flagrant disregard of copyright and spreading of hateful or manipulative content here...I mean things like uncut recordings of live streams, in-depth coverage of a topic, archival footage or other fair-use examples of clips with music/imagery caught by false positives in content matching and so on)
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