With the coast of hosting videos and almost all instsnced not accepting registration. Peertube has zero chance to replace youtube. The best it could be is complementary to youtube
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Benaaasaaas@lemmy.world 7 months agoYou mean PeerTube?
small44@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Omniraptor@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Peertube actually uses some pretty nifty p2p tech (not quite BitTorrent iirc but same principle) to mitigate popularity spikes.
small44@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What about how hard it is to have an account on any instance. Pwople can’t even comment on video without an account
Iapar@feddit.de 7 months ago
Can’t even? Where is it possible to comment without an account?
But not being able to create an account easily is a good point that speaks against the concept.
But I would guess there are instance still open for registration.
Kyyrypyy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I would so much like to love peertube, but I have yet to find any instance that hosts the trash reevant to my interests. Mostly they either are filled with reuploads from YouTube, or are full of radicalized conspiracy theories (which I encounter very rarely on any other form of fediverse).
And then there is the “dumploads”, which makes the instances seem like they only have one active contributor, as they dump like 60 videos right after another, resulting the frontpages to have just one note content. This, however, could be gixed by otion to group conecutive uploads as “[latest video] and [n] other videos from [user]”, which would help to find more diverse content, as well as discourage dumping.
Then again, that is only my opinion, and if PeerTube is fine for others, who am I to complain. It just doesn’t seem to be for me :/
deadsuperhero@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There are a handful of decent instances, but you really have to dig to find stuff, sadly. I run Spectra Video and basically have to curate sign-ups and which servers we follow.
It helps cut down on a lot of the crap, but it takes work.