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> Methinks this is not a viable competitor to YouTube. It is not. I'm French and I have known about the different FramaSoft software for years now. They are a
by iLoveOncall 2y ago
> Methinks this is not a viable competitor to YouTube.
It is not.
I'm French and I have known about the different FramaSoft software for years now. They are all terrible alternatives.
Their approach is completely wrong, they think that being "libre" (free) is enough to acquire market share, and they completely ignore the user experience, feature parity, and innovation. All of their tools are therefore terrible, to the point of being unusable.
They are a paragon of oblivious French mediocrity.
PeerTube specifically has existed for almost a decade and has never been used by anybody. It is an empty shell of a website kept alive just to burn public money.
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoThis is a harsh take but makes sense to me, unfortunately. It’s been around forever and has amounted to nothing. There doesn’t seem to be any attention to acquiring users or content. Maybe there are better projects to support?
- seanvelasco 2y agoexactly! i'm so glad i found this comment. you said it so eloquently. tried so hard to find a video i like, but i just couldn't. can't find a single video for current events, hobbies, or even tech. the search just doesn't work. the only justification for peertube's existence is that it's libre. but the experience is terrible!!! a frontend engineer can build a better ui over the weekend. peertube existed for a decade, but they couldn't bother to innovate on the ui/ux side all those years. edit: it's almost 2025, they're building a mobile app, but they chose Flutter. now i understand. they should outsource the tech decision-making
- noprocrasted 2y agoThis is not limited to FramaSoft. A lot of free-software-adjacent developers/organizations suffer from this attitude.