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It seems like PeerTube adoption is slower than Mastodon. Blender's instance[1] is the only other non-toy instance I know of. It's probably because video is much

by Kye 7y ago

It seems like PeerTube adoption is slower than Mastodon. Blender's instance[1] is the only other non-toy instance I know of. It's probably because video is much harder to work with, so fewer people do it in the first place. [1] https://video.blender.org/ https://video.blender.org/

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ObsoleteNerd 7y ago
I can’t even get that to load, and that’s half the problem with all of the YouTube alternatives in general. Youtube is annoying in more ways than I can count, but it works, and I can watch videos in it.
- toomuchtodo 7y ago
  N=1, but it loaded just fine for me on a T-Mobile LTE connection in rural Tennessee. Buck the Bunny started streaming immediately on my iPhone when clicked, the kids love it.
- jan_g 7y ago
  Same here, stopping every few seconds, then buffering, at some point about 15s in, it simply went black and that was it. And I share your opinion on video playback alternatives - when a website serves me the video which isn't hosted on Youtube, I kind of groan inside, because of the bad experience of alternatives. Youtube just works, it loads fast and plays without interruptions.
notafraudster 7y ago
I opened this to see what "non-toy instance" might refer to. It does have a lot of videos. But the highest view count is just shy of 700, and of the hundreds of videos, only maybe a half-dozen have three-digit view counts. It seems like new videos are averaging <10 views. The same videos on YouTube seem to be averaging 6k-10k and the equivalent to the 700 view video has over 7 million views on YouTube. I don't know what the threshold for "toy" versus "non-toy" is in terms of seriousness, but I do know that I uploaded a video for a professor of mine 5 or 6 years ago, it's a 20 minute video of an unimportant speech he gave with bad audio and it is not SEOed at all (no real search terms attached to it) and it has more views than the highest viewcount video on the instance. I see one of two possible interpretations: The first is that given that you choose to upload to both YouTube and a PeerTube instance, no one will watch the PeerTube instance. So PeerTube is just an emergency hedge against something going south on YouTube. Insurance is good, but the premiums in terms of time might be a little high. The second is that it's possible some of those YouTube people wouldn't watch the videos on PeerTube even if they were removed from YouTube. That's a harder problem to solve. I guess I don't intend to undermine the nobility of the effort, just a natural skeptic when it comes to the feasibility of it going anywhere.
- Kye 7y ago
  Non-toy meaning a serious website, not something someone plays with in their time off.

by Kye 7y ago

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ObsoleteNerd 7y ago

I can’t even get that to load, and that’s half the problem with all of the YouTube alternatives in general. Youtube is annoying in more ways than I can count, but it works, and I can watch videos in it.

toomuchtodo 7y ago
N=1, but it loaded just fine for me on a T-Mobile LTE connection in rural Tennessee. Buck the Bunny started streaming immediately on my iPhone when clicked, the kids love it.
jan_g 7y ago
Same here, stopping every few seconds, then buffering, at some point about 15s in, it simply went black and that was it. And I share your opinion on video playback alternatives - when a website serves me the video which isn't hosted on Youtube, I kind of groan inside, because of the bad experience of alternatives. Youtube just works, it loads fast and plays without interruptions.

notafraudster 7y ago

I opened this to see what "non-toy instance" might refer to. It does have a lot of videos. But the highest view count is just shy of 700, and of the hundreds of videos, only maybe a half-dozen have three-digit view counts. It seems like new videos are averaging <10 views. The same videos on YouTube seem to be averaging 6k-10k and the equivalent to the 700 view video has over 7 million views on YouTube. I don't know what the threshold for "toy" versus "non-toy" is in terms of seriousness, but I do know that I uploaded a video for a professor of mine 5 or 6 years ago, it's a 20 minute video of an unimportant speech he gave with bad audio and it is not SEOed at all (no real search terms attached to it) and it has more views than the highest viewcount video on the instance. I see one of two possible interpretations: The first is that given that you choose to upload to both YouTube and a PeerTube instance, no one will watch the PeerTube instance. So PeerTube is just an emergency hedge against something going south on YouTube. Insurance is good, but the premiums in terms of time might be a little high. The second is that it's possible some of those YouTube people wouldn't watch the videos on PeerTube even if they were removed from YouTube. That's a harder problem to solve. I guess I don't intend to undermine the nobility of the effort, just a natural skeptic when it comes to the feasibility of it going anywhere.

Kye 7y ago
Non-toy meaning a serious website, not something someone plays with in their time off.