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PeerTube is pretty sweet. If you post videos on YouTube, I'd suggest you also find a PeerTube instance you like, and host your videos there as well. Think of

PeerTube is pretty sweet. If you post videos on YouTube, I'd suggest you also find a PeerTube instance you like, and host your videos there as well. Think of it as a backup for YouTube, for when they nuke your account for some unknown/undisclosed reason[0][1][2], while also participating in (and thereby somewhat supporting) platforms that don't surveil your every granular action. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30401241 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30401241 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23758547 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23758547 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12163892 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12163892

YaBomm 5y ago
It would be nice to have a tool that would cross-post
mattl 5y ago
Anecdotal but the Peertube instance I was recommended for this purpose closed down.
KennyBlanken 5y ago
- dev_by_day 5y ago
  You also don't need to paint an entire a peer to peer community with the worst actors on it. There are plenty of normal content creators and instances that are not overrun with that content (see https://tilvids.com/videos/trending https://tilvids.com/videos/trending) Also backing up your videos locally will not do anything for helping your fans get access to your content, you will still need to re-host it somewhere. Having it on peer-tube means if your account gets frozen/banned over some bullshit, you can just point your fans to your peer tube channel.
- _v7gu 5y ago
  So don't upload videos to YouTube at all?
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 5y ago
  "... a platform infested with bigotry, consipracies, scams, misinformation, graphic violence, etc..." Thought for a second there this was referring to YouTube and the videos its recommendation algorithms present. Heck the web is filled with this sort of garbage, just peruse the .com zone file. The majority of websites are junk. Yet we still "support" the web, a "platform" infested with the worst humanity has to offer.
  - southerntofu 5y ago
    Yeah it feels like Youtube algorithms generated an entire new generation of neo-nazis and reptilian/illuminati-concerned conspiracists but now that Youtube is (sometimes) starting to take a stand against its own children, the FLOSS ecosystem should be responsible for the monstrosity produced by that multi-billion dollar corporation?! Source: i've stopped youtube entirely years ago because every time i was watching some interesting content (including radical politics) it would always try to push nazi/illuminati content to me.
    - 1vuio0pswjnm7 5y ago
      And yet how many times does some tech journalist/tech worker/tech worshipper tell us that Big Tech knows us better than we know ourselves. Maybe advertisers believe it. Even if Big Tech knows what computer users want, it does not mean that is what they will try to serve to them. I have scripts that allow me to see which results in a YouTube search are increasing in views over time. The worst videos, with high view counts, that are the least responsive to the search terms (if even responsive at all) are being incessantly promoted by YouTube and we can see the the high view counts continue to increase day after day, for years.
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- benjaminwootton 5y ago
  One mans misinformation and conspiracy theories is another mans truth. The exact reason I would use something like Peertube is the risk that my view is somehow not in line with the narrative and the content is removed.
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- bigbugbag 5y ago
  Youtube is such a platform, odysee and that sort of things are, peertube is not. Peertube is the free software anyone can use to host video content in a decentralized and federated manner. It's akin to what the personal blogs were on the web a few years back For the federated part, peertube is part of the fediverse through activitypub. some real world example of peertube usage: KDE https://conf.tube/accounts/kde/video-channels https://conf.tube/accounts/kde/video-channels PINE64: https://tilvids.com/a/pine64tilvids/video-channels https://tilvids.com/a/pine64tilvids/video-channels Krita: https://share.tube/a/kritafoundation/video-channels https://share.tube/a/kritafoundation/video-channels Free Software Foundation: https://framatube.org/a/fsf/video-channels https://framatube.org/a/fsf/video-channels
fouc 5y ago
Responding to a flagged comment: It is indeed possible to have a tool that could cross-post to both. Use something like OBS to record a copy of your video that you're streaming to youtube, twitch, tec..
- southerntofu 5y ago
  From what i heard OBS is pretty capable to stream to several locations (using a plugin) if your bandwidth allows it.

YaBomm 5y ago

It would be nice to have a tool that would cross-post

mattl 5y ago

Anecdotal but the Peertube instance I was recommended for this purpose closed down.

KennyBlanken 5y ago

dev_by_day 5y ago
You also don't need to paint an entire a peer to peer community with the worst actors on it. There are plenty of normal content creators and instances that are not overrun with that content (see https://tilvids.com/videos/trending https://tilvids.com/videos/trending) Also backing up your videos locally will not do anything for helping your fans get access to your content, you will still need to re-host it somewhere. Having it on peer-tube means if your account gets frozen/banned over some bullshit, you can just point your fans to your peer tube channel.
_v7gu 5y ago
So don't upload videos to YouTube at all?
1vuio0pswjnm7 5y ago
"... a platform infested with bigotry, consipracies, scams, misinformation, graphic violence, etc..." Thought for a second there this was referring to YouTube and the videos its recommendation algorithms present. Heck the web is filled with this sort of garbage, just peruse the .com zone file. The majority of websites are junk. Yet we still "support" the web, a "platform" infested with the worst humanity has to offer.
- southerntofu 5y ago
  Yeah it feels like Youtube algorithms generated an entire new generation of neo-nazis and reptilian/illuminati-concerned conspiracists but now that Youtube is (sometimes) starting to take a stand against its own children, the FLOSS ecosystem should be responsible for the monstrosity produced by that multi-billion dollar corporation?! Source: i've stopped youtube entirely years ago because every time i was watching some interesting content (including radical politics) it would always try to push nazi/illuminati content to me.
  - 1vuio0pswjnm7 5y ago
    And yet how many times does some tech journalist/tech worker/tech worshipper tell us that Big Tech knows us better than we know ourselves. Maybe advertisers believe it. Even if Big Tech knows what computer users want, it does not mean that is what they will try to serve to them. I have scripts that allow me to see which results in a YouTube search are increasing in views over time. The worst videos, with high view counts, that are the least responsive to the search terms (if even responsive at all) are being incessantly promoted by YouTube and we can see the the high view counts continue to increase day after day, for years.
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benjaminwootton 5y ago
One mans misinformation and conspiracy theories is another mans truth. The exact reason I would use something like Peertube is the risk that my view is somehow not in line with the narrative and the content is removed.
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bigbugbag 5y ago
Youtube is such a platform, odysee and that sort of things are, peertube is not. Peertube is the free software anyone can use to host video content in a decentralized and federated manner. It's akin to what the personal blogs were on the web a few years back For the federated part, peertube is part of the fediverse through activitypub. some real world example of peertube usage: KDE https://conf.tube/accounts/kde/video-channels https://conf.tube/accounts/kde/video-channels PINE64: https://tilvids.com/a/pine64tilvids/video-channels https://tilvids.com/a/pine64tilvids/video-channels Krita: https://share.tube/a/kritafoundation/video-channels https://share.tube/a/kritafoundation/video-channels Free Software Foundation: https://framatube.org/a/fsf/video-channels https://framatube.org/a/fsf/video-channels

fouc 5y ago

Responding to a flagged comment: It is indeed possible to have a tool that could cross-post to both. Use something like OBS to record a copy of your video that you're streaming to youtube, twitch, tec..

southerntofu 5y ago
From what i heard OBS is pretty capable to stream to several locations (using a plugin) if your bandwidth allows it.