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A free software to take back control of your videos! With more than 600,000 hosted videos, viewed more than 70 millions times and 150,000 users, PeerTube is the decentralized free software alternative to videos platforms developed by Framasoft

PeerTube is fantastic with its decentralized model that prioritizes user privacy and control. However, it still struggles to gain widespread popularity.

What do you think could be done to enhance PeerTube’s appeal and functionality, possibly even becoming a serious alternative to YouTube?

  • indomara@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    5 months ago

    Along with the other things posted here, it would be nice if peertube had a landing page or even if there was a “watch peertube now” button that led to a page showcasing current popular videos or something.

    I clicked your link to peertube.org, then had to “Ask Sepia, our iconic cuttlefish” for a search term to get a list of videos, which after scrolling for a bit moved into lists and channels. A click of the “show more videos” button opened a new tab, and upon clicking a video to watch yet another tab opened to what seems like a fediverse instance for peertube?

    For it to be a viable alternative, it needs to capture the way people watch and engage with youtube. If I am watching a video on youtube, there are suggestions for similar content below. If I go to the home page and scroll, either the most popular content will show if I am not signed in, or if I am, content related to videos I watch will be shown.

    If I click to watch a video, it will open in the same window.

    This is the sort of usability that will entice those new users to make the leap.

    • Dasus@lemmy.world
      41·
      5 months ago

      Yeah YouTube shorts is like smoking crack (I don’t do Tik-Tok), when compared to your experience of Peertube, yours, metaphorically, seems more like teenagers trying to roll a joint of nutmeg,

      • indomara@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        They definitely are like crack for a lot of people, I use a youtube front end when I can, and when it’s down a browser addon to remove them.

        My daughter is 18 and just a couple months ago started doing the same, after realising shorts were almost an addiction.

        Another friend has admitted she cannot stop watching them but so far hasn’t done anything about it.