Submitted 11 months ago by spaduf@slrpnk.net to fediverse@lemmy.world
Presumably this is due to recent actions regarding adblockers over at Youtube.
In my eyes, Piped and such are the ideal solution, not peertube. Not, because peertube is bad, but because with using Piped, you can have your videos and you can have them on a FOSS surface, but leave the nasty tasks like paying for enough storage to host all those videos to the data guzzlers who get denied their return. Some real Robin hood shit right there.
Unless you're also throwing money at YouTube premium (etc), isn't this by definition unsustainable to do? So it's not really a viable long-term strategy either.
Like don't get me wrong, I don't want all the tracking and stuff either, but somebody has to pay those server bills. If it's not happening through straight cash then it's going to be through increasingly aggressive monetization and cost-cutting strategies.
Oh, Reality-Norgur is well aware of that. Yet, I decided to let fantasy-Norgur take over for a bit ;)
Is there somewhere I can read about how you would go about using peertube? I’m not sure I completely understand how it works.
I know makertube.net is having an issue at the moment where some fairly big maker channels are coming over, and just dumping their entire back catalogue in one go and spamming everything up. It’s very annoying, so if you’re considering a jump to PT please don’t do this. You can import your YT videos as private, and schedule them to publish one by one instead.
The MakerTube admin posted an update just last week saying we had funding through the end of year, but since a load of new people just signed up they’ve now had to spin up extra resources so that might no longer be the case. How many of these new channels will actually donate remains to be seen!
Perhaps these services need upload limits during peak hours like Vimeo (still??) has. Or at least throttling uploads over freezing up the whole network
At the very least some kind of server rule asking people not to literally dump 100 hour long videos in a row, but to maybe instead bring their best ones over and take it as an opportunity to leave the trash videos behind!
Makertube admin just posted another update for anyone who’s interested what sort of effect this is having and how much hosting such things costs mastodon.social/@MakerTube/111268033207325923
292 TB wow that’s is a lot of data , how much data does YouTube have saved then? Exabytes?
Is it? Is it really? I have about 50tb total in storage, and I’m fairly budget conscious. I know people who have hundreds of TB storage.
300TB is in range of what a normal middle class person can put together on a hobby basis.
The maximum I have is like 20 TB.
That is honestly not nearly as much as I thought it would be.
A guess, but easily yes I’m guessing, given 1TB stores like a few YouTube channels and all of their videos? Like not a lot at 1080p or especially 4k.
(Hosted channels on lbry/odysee, I thought I could fit 100 channels in 1TB, I could only do like 8 or 10 when I was done).
Anyone know what options there are for using something like this on an Apple TV?
Good news!
I‘m thinking of hosting a peertube instance just for funzies. It seems like an awesome thing. I just dont „get“ it as much as I get mastodon, lemmy and matrix. Something about the discovery process does not click with me yet. Is anyone making an ios (i know) app soon?
rip? puffy.tube
Are Peertube and co working on potential monetisation for creators? I know that’s a common complaint over Youtube.
Right now there’s just a support button that you can link to your patreon or equivalent.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ngl, this whole fedi thing is really great.
FARTYSHARTBLAST@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Chuh, totally.