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to be seen by whom? I'm pretty tech savvy and have heard of none of these. Not a single one.
by eldaisfish 5y ago
to be seen by whom?
I'm pretty tech savvy and have heard of none of these. Not a single one.
- SkyMarshal 5y agoI’ve heard of Peertube, it was on HN recently. But none of the others. Oddly unmentioned are Vimeo and Dailymotion, which have been around much longer and probably have larger user bases and network effects.
- ghaff 5y agoUnless you have a following, probably no one will see it on YouTube either. I generally post on YouTube but, if I were concerned about being blocked, I'd probably just host on a VPS.
- throw10920 5y agoI've heard of all of those - mostly through my friends. However, as to your larger point - you're right, most people don't know about these. I would argue that those who want to escape Google's grasp should be willing to encourage person-to-person sharing as an alternative to the recommendation algorithm. Sure, 99.99% of the population isn't browsing PeerTube, but I bet you that most of them would be willing to watch a video hosted there if it was suggested to them by their friends. This might be a good idea in general. Think of how much better ecosystems we would have if people relied on their friends to make personalized recommendations to content on any platform, as opposed to engagement-optimizing automated algorithms that exclusively recommend content on a single platform.
- ghaff 5y agoBy and large, hosting isn’t the issue whether text, audio, images, or video. Yes, video is more intensive than the others but hosting taken by itself is a solved problem. While podcast directories are centralized the hosting is pretty distributed. Not so easy is finding things and the fact that some level of moderation is probably needed somewhere in the system. And you’ll have to pay.