The bigger issue is monetization. YouTube is popular in no small part because creators are trying to make money.
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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I feel so bad for peertube. It’s such a great idea, but until it has a full platform wide search options, and regular content producers in areas OTHER than technology, it will never catch on.
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 day ago
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 day ago
There’s plenty of room for creators who don’t want monetization or can monetize things themselves by utilizing product placements (if the platform were popular enough).
The biggest problem is federation (or lack thereof). I’ve looked at A LOT of instances, and most of them either don’t federate at all, or only federate with a handful of other instances, as opposed to Lemmy or Mastodon that federate with thousands of others…
This means it is deeply segregated and discoverability is virtually nada, not to mention the default algorithms are completely useless and uneditable.
Sunshine@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
Peertube vs Youtube in numbers: 21k / 2.7b
Yeah they need to improve quite a bit because the platform is harder to use in comparison to Lemmy and Mastodon.
rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
sepiasearch.org
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If this searches all of peertube, then it needs to be the default search on every peertube page.
Sunshine@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
Thank you for the recommendation, it’s time to try out Peertube once again.
yonder@sh.itjust.works 3 minutes ago
For me, I found that there were a few channels I subscribe to on youtube that also upload on freetube, so I watch their videos on freetube instead. I also find that the image quality is better than youtube.
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 day ago
It does have a “full platform wide search”.
tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So isn’t it federated?
AsudoxDev@programming.dev 1 day ago
It is
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Let’s not forget about the fact that there need to be general purpose viewer instances that users can sign up to for watching content, because uh while accessing through Mastodon or Lemmy is a cool feature people want to be able to save Video lists and have watch history, things that don’t work at all or well when using a Link aggregator or a Microblogging service to access the content.