I know some things about both, but im still confused for some reason. Like what is the difference between peertube and youtube, which is better?
I was thinking of getting into one of theses for video creation but im not sure which would be better as a sort of hobby? also do i need a powerful pc or a good microphone to get started? is it better to record with or without your voice?
Feel free to add on to this, but please be kind.
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PeerTube offers self hosting of video. You can host whatever you want and no one can stop you with anything short of extreme state intervention. Video is distributed to viewers via a P2P channel. This means that you don’t need YouTube’s network resources to serve a modest number of videos; any super popular video will be distributed mostly by the P2P network rather than your own server.
You don’t necessarily have to self-host. There are publicly accessible PeerTube servers who will host your videos for free. However you won’t necessarily have as much resistance to censorship in that case.
YouTube offers baked-in monetization. For good and ill. If you want to monetize your videos, you will have to figure that out for yourself on PeerTube.
PeerTube is part of the Fediverse so you need to pick an instance and each has a limit on the amount of content you can upload, so if you are prolific this might run out quickly. There are also no ads so you have to.rely on other sources for income (Patreon, affiliate links, etc).
Peertube is based on ActivityPub…so can I subscribe to a Peertube channel via Lemmy?
Yes.
Peertube doesn’t make a billionaire asshole richer.
I wish peertube servers federated with more servers. It’s so hard to find content
A search engine for it was released (or at least promoted to me) recently - should be helpful for that: https://sepiasearch.org/
Yeah I think the problem is that I cant find many videos I like. I searched and found a few creators that I watch on youtube but not really enough to get me to keep going back
Yeah, I looked around and unfortunately couldn’t find that much either (except for a few specific niches).
Honestly though, if peertube semi blew up the same way mastodon / lemmy / kbin have I think most of the hosts would shut down in the process. Anything but short videos are hella expensive to store and distribute en masse compared to text + images. Video might be one of the things that can only survive if mostly centralised for now.
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I’d be interested in checking peertube content as I’m trying to find alternatives to YouTube, but I can’t find an iOS app for that. Is there one?
I want to be able to watch these videos on my phone, not only on my computer.
