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Well, PeerTube is not too hard to install and is quite pleasant to use… https://joinpeertube.org/ https://joinpeertube.org/ https://github.com/Chocobozzz/Peer

by jraph 5y ago

Well, PeerTube is not too hard to install and is quite pleasant to use… https://joinpeertube.org/ https://joinpeertube.org/ https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/doc/production.md https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/...

slimscsi 5y ago
If an install is necessary, you have already lost 90% of your viewers.
- jraph 5y ago
  Viewers don't install anything. That would be the content creator here because the question is "as a content creator who wants to self host, what can I use?", but that could also be someone the content creator knows, or someone providing a PeerTube instance for content creators. PeerTube is a piece of open source software meant to build a YouTube-like platform, with optional federation (and P2P to allow servers to offload some bandwidth to viewers, but I don't know how well this works in practice with the widespread asymmetrical or mobile internet connections). It is not for the viewer to install.
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zxexz 5y ago
Hmm, if you go the the instances list on joinpeertube.org, and hit "display" or "no opinion" on the "Sensitive Videos" filter, you don't have to go down more than a couple before seeing awful white nationalist content instances :|
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- jraph 5y ago
  I don't think this is that relevant. It's like saying the web is full of shit. It's true, but should we throw the baby out with the bath water? I host a PeerTube instance for my choir and I don't quite care about the existence of PeerTube instances hosting questionable content. I didn't enable federation though. Still hesitant to do this.
  - zxexz 5y ago
    Perhaps I should have added more to my comment. I love Peertube and it is very valuable software. I just question if the joinpeertube.org website shouldn't blacklist some of those from appearing on their website. Having such links there definitely wont increase the likelihood of your average content creator using the platform.
    - Ourgon 5y ago
      Ah, so they should blacklist things you don't like. Well, while they're at it, there's plenty of stuff out there I don't like so let's blacklist that as well. I'm fairly sure there are things out there which neither you nor I would want to blacklist but which should be banned according to others who don't care about our blacklists. Maybe the current system works after all? Just don't visit those instances you dislike, this is what I do. Give people the option to choose for themselves whether they want to partake of material which you or I or my neighbour or his dog finds offending.
      - zxexz 5y ago
        I was just suggesting that they not link to white nationalist content their website. The website that is the first result of searching for "peertube" in duckduckgo or Google.
        Ourgon 5y ago
        I'm just suggesting they not link to communist / AFA-anarchist / black supremacy / radical identitarian / man-hating / ... content on their website.
- Ourgon 5y ago
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  - zxexz 5y ago
    If I may please point you to the HN Guidelines [0] (also linked in the footer). [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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- pmoriarty 5y ago
  I don't care what's on PeerTube's front page any more than I care about what's on YouTube's front page (ie. not at all), since I always just search for what I want.
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by jraph 5y ago

slimscsi 5y ago

If an install is necessary, you have already lost 90% of your viewers.

jraph 5y ago
Viewers don't install anything. That would be the content creator here because the question is "as a content creator who wants to self host, what can I use?", but that could also be someone the content creator knows, or someone providing a PeerTube instance for content creators. PeerTube is a piece of open source software meant to build a YouTube-like platform, with optional federation (and P2P to allow servers to offload some bandwidth to viewers, but I don't know how well this works in practice with the widespread asymmetrical or mobile internet connections). It is not for the viewer to install.
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zxexz 5y ago

Hmm, if you go the the instances list on joinpeertube.org, and hit "display" or "no opinion" on the "Sensitive Videos" filter, you don't have to go down more than a couple before seeing awful white nationalist content instances :|

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jraph 5y ago
I don't think this is that relevant. It's like saying the web is full of shit. It's true, but should we throw the baby out with the bath water? I host a PeerTube instance for my choir and I don't quite care about the existence of PeerTube instances hosting questionable content. I didn't enable federation though. Still hesitant to do this.
- zxexz 5y ago
  Perhaps I should have added more to my comment. I love Peertube and it is very valuable software. I just question if the joinpeertube.org website shouldn't blacklist some of those from appearing on their website. Having such links there definitely wont increase the likelihood of your average content creator using the platform.
  - Ourgon 5y ago
    Ah, so they should blacklist things you don't like. Well, while they're at it, there's plenty of stuff out there I don't like so let's blacklist that as well. I'm fairly sure there are things out there which neither you nor I would want to blacklist but which should be banned according to others who don't care about our blacklists. Maybe the current system works after all? Just don't visit those instances you dislike, this is what I do. Give people the option to choose for themselves whether they want to partake of material which you or I or my neighbour or his dog finds offending.
    - zxexz 5y ago
      I was just suggesting that they not link to white nationalist content their website. The website that is the first result of searching for "peertube" in duckduckgo or Google.
      - Ourgon 5y ago
        I'm just suggesting they not link to communist / AFA-anarchist / black supremacy / radical identitarian / man-hating / ... content on their website.
Ourgon 5y ago
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- zxexz 5y ago
  If I may please point you to the HN Guidelines [0] (also linked in the footer). [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - Ourgon 5y ago
pmoriarty 5y ago
I don't care what's on PeerTube's front page any more than I care about what's on YouTube's front page (ie. not at all), since I always just search for what I want.

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