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The url points to a blogpost at Framasoft with information on the release canidate. If you visit the homepage of Peertube (https://joinpeertube.org https://join

by BjornW 5y ago

The url points to a blogpost at Framasoft with information on the release canidate. If you visit the homepage of Peertube (https://joinpeertube.org https://joinpeertube.org) you'll likely find the information you are looking for.

aosaigh 5y ago
I think this is a good example of what separates HN users from normal users. The fact that the blog is on a completely different domain and using a different name is confusing. What's more, when you visit the Peertube domain it's not clear what you should do. Do I need to download something? What's an instance? How come the top video on the page brings me to a separate page? I know these are things that most HN users are happy to dig into and figure out, but currently there's no way Peertube is "an alternative to video platforms" for even saavy web users, let alone regular users. Maybe that's OK though?
- mshanu 5y ago
  I think this is the challenge with all decentralised systems, its not as easy as you click some buttons and you get served like in web 2. Hope more focus will come on experience part of this, for such approaches to become popular
- laurentb 5y ago
  not really, Framasoft is a French company that develops a collection of open source alternatives to popular software. It's the same as if Microsoft was posting a blog on its own msdn.com domain for something related to visual studio or SharePoint
  - dewey 5y ago
    > It's the same as if Microsoft was posting a blog on its own msdn.com domain for something related to visual studio or SharePoint Which underlines the point that the parent is making. Normal users are not the ones reading things related to SharePoint. Apple does their announcements on the apple.com domain and not on applnews.com. > I think this is a good example of what separates HN users from normal users.
    - ekianjo 5y ago
      > Normal users are not the ones reading things related to SharePoint. Normal users would never ever find this blog post in the first place. You are trying to fix a problem that does not exist.
      - dtonon 5y ago
        The "Read the blog post" link is placed in the first highlighted box of the project's homepage :)
    - detaro 5y ago
      Normal users are also not the ones primarily expected to read release notes for release candidates for the Peertube server software. Sharepoint is arguably a good comparison: run by administrators for users - it's just that peertube is more interesting to nerds that are both in one (although I'm sure there's some folks with sharepoint at home...).
  - igorkraw 5y ago
    Small correction, it's a non-profit association that can be placed in the same cluster as Mozilla, the EFF, the CCC or the Linux Foundation (i.e., the good guys if you care about FOSS and an open software and internet world)
  - cameronh90 5y ago
    > msdn.com Doesn't exist any more. It's now all under microsoft.com (e.g. devblogs.microsoft.com).
- Zababa 5y ago
  The way peertube is an alternative to youtube is not by end users understanding what it is, but by technical users hosting themselves the videos. For example, OCaml has a peertube instance to watch OCaml related content: https://watch.ocaml.org/ https://watch.ocaml.org/. This is an alternative to watching the content on youtube.
Saint_Genet 5y ago
If you go to that site you don't get tons of videos, you get a technical explanation of what it is and a link to a page with 10 channels. Unless you're the kind of person who is on HN, you're just gonna go to youtube instead.

by BjornW 5y ago

aosaigh 5y ago

I think this is a good example of what separates HN users from normal users. The fact that the blog is on a completely different domain and using a different name is confusing. What's more, when you visit the Peertube domain it's not clear what you should do. Do I need to download something? What's an instance? How come the top video on the page brings me to a separate page? I know these are things that most HN users are happy to dig into and figure out, but currently there's no way Peertube is "an alternative to video platforms" for even saavy web users, let alone regular users. Maybe that's OK though?

mshanu 5y ago
I think this is the challenge with all decentralised systems, its not as easy as you click some buttons and you get served like in web 2. Hope more focus will come on experience part of this, for such approaches to become popular
laurentb 5y ago
not really, Framasoft is a French company that develops a collection of open source alternatives to popular software. It's the same as if Microsoft was posting a blog on its own msdn.com domain for something related to visual studio or SharePoint
- dewey 5y ago
  > It's the same as if Microsoft was posting a blog on its own msdn.com domain for something related to visual studio or SharePoint Which underlines the point that the parent is making. Normal users are not the ones reading things related to SharePoint. Apple does their announcements on the apple.com domain and not on applnews.com. > I think this is a good example of what separates HN users from normal users.
  - ekianjo 5y ago
    > Normal users are not the ones reading things related to SharePoint. Normal users would never ever find this blog post in the first place. You are trying to fix a problem that does not exist.
    - dtonon 5y ago
      The "Read the blog post" link is placed in the first highlighted box of the project's homepage :)
  - detaro 5y ago
    Normal users are also not the ones primarily expected to read release notes for release candidates for the Peertube server software. Sharepoint is arguably a good comparison: run by administrators for users - it's just that peertube is more interesting to nerds that are both in one (although I'm sure there's some folks with sharepoint at home...).
- igorkraw 5y ago
  Small correction, it's a non-profit association that can be placed in the same cluster as Mozilla, the EFF, the CCC or the Linux Foundation (i.e., the good guys if you care about FOSS and an open software and internet world)
- cameronh90 5y ago
  > msdn.com Doesn't exist any more. It's now all under microsoft.com (e.g. devblogs.microsoft.com).
Zababa 5y ago
The way peertube is an alternative to youtube is not by end users understanding what it is, but by technical users hosting themselves the videos. For example, OCaml has a peertube instance to watch OCaml related content: https://watch.ocaml.org/ https://watch.ocaml.org/. This is an alternative to watching the content on youtube.

Saint_Genet 5y ago

If you go to that site you don't get tons of videos, you get a technical explanation of what it is and a link to a page with 10 channels. Unless you're the kind of person who is on HN, you're just gonna go to youtube instead.