Also, since back when I last looked for youtube alternatives, many that seemed good turned out to use things like NFT and the sort, I feel compelled to ask:
Does it use technologies such as that, or are its instances just plain usual self-hosted sites?
PeerTube is great, it just needs more content. The only instance with good content is https://tilvids.com/ and there isn’t much there other than Linux content. The problem with PeerTube is that there’s no creator funding model, so creators don’t have any incentive to use PeerTube instead of YouTube where they can get paid.
Depends on in what way you’re looking for a youtube alternative!
I think peertube might be fine if you’re looking for a way to host your own videos, but it’s propably not a good place to just browse for video content the way you might with youtube. I think the most solid alternative for that is Nebula. It costs like a dollar a month IIRC and has a couple big name video easayist kind of types. It doesn’t really have anything to do with the fediverse or anything, but a majority of it is owned by the creators and from what I understand it is more generous per view than youtube, plus it has a buissiness model that doesn’t rely on serving you adds and selling your data.
Iirc, Nebula is one of those NFT video hosting sites I found, so not much of an option. And regarding lack of contents, all social medias start like that, so I don’t see it as a problem per se, since it can potentially still grow.
Maybe you found a different Nebula? https://nebula.tv/ is subscription based and has nothing to do with NFTs.
That’s completely wrong. Nebula has nothing to do with NFTs whatsoever.
I think you have this mixed up with something else. The Nebula service described above is at https://nebula.tv/
I think it could be. But right now there is not much content. In fact, as I’ve browsed, the content that is on there is not good at all.
I think it could be useful say with a Peertube instance associated with a Lemmy instance, and when you want to post a video it hosts it in Peertube.
Yes, but it suffers the same problem the rest of the fediverse does: the lack of people.
If you are looking for an alternative to consume content, maybe odysee will be a better option.
Anyway, you can watch peertube using the newpipe app.
Exactly this. I don’t know what to do with a homepage that shows one new video per week in the federated feed. And many of those new videos are games I don’t know or Blender videos.
I think RSS would be the best Youtube alternative. RSS works great for just about anything you want to broadcast. I don’t know why people refuse to use it for video.
I have tried using peertube a couple of times, there are some good videos there but it’s also a place where, and this is my personal opinion, the wackadoos gather, because there’s less quality content shouting them out.
It could be a viable YouTube replacement but it needs a lot of independent server hosts federating the content so that you get quality of speed and playback and it needs more people posting content to that.
In other words it’s halfway there, but it needs participation, money and development to get the rest of the way.
Peertube instances are self-hosted sites that happen to interact with the greater fediverse in general.
Depending on your file format and hosting situation, you can also host videos on your own site with a template HTML file.
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