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PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance
- toomuchtodo 11mo agohttps://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/ https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/ https://framagit.org/framasoft/peertube/ https://framagit.org/framasoft/peertube/ https://joinpeertube.org/ https://joinpeertube.org/
- crtasm 11mo agoand v8.0 released today
- toomuchtodo 11mo agohttps://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/releases/tag/v8.0.0 https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/releases/tag/v8.0.0
- Imustaskforhelp 11mo agoCan someone please tldr me what digital public goods alliance means and how peertube can benefit from being recognized as a digital public good. From what I can tell, it is UN affiliated/related project where basically it tries to make countries integrate these digital public goods in their country's ecosystem/ work on these (products?) Is there any amount of sponsorship money that come with this classification or more tax benefits? Or does UN (thus countries who fund UN) itself fund DPGA? I find this idea fascinating now thinking about it if that can be the case, for these countries a few millions or even billions collectively might not mean much but it can mean a lot towards open source and digital soveriegnity in my opinion too.
- pogue 11mo agoI would also like to know what this means
- yunwal 11mo agoLooks like it qualifies you for UNICEF grants https://www.unicef.org/innovation/growth-funding#:~:text=Grow%20a%20pipeline https://www.unicef.org/innovation/growth-funding#:~:text=Gro...
- yanokwa 11mo agoI run [ODK](https://getodk.org https://getodk.org). It's a offline mobile data collection platform that has been an DPG since 2022. In practice, being a DPG makes your project slightly easier to choose in UN and government procurements. In most cases, they're choosing your platform because it's free, so it's unlikely that money or code contributions will come your way. It can even be a downside, because your software may end up deployed on an under-provisioned government server that generates a flood of support requests. Ask me how I know... You may also get a bit more visibility and become eligible for some DPG-related funding calls. But in my experience, funding ultimately depends on demonstrated impact, donor relationships, alignment with national digital strategies, and the ability to deliver at scale.
- Imustaskforhelp 11mo agoThank you for your response! So I thought that having an open source project in DPGA would be really great but it seems that everything that glitters isn't gold like how you mention support requests etc. I have a question tho, What are the best foundations or labels (like DGPA) that an open source software can qualify for which might give it more exposure and funding Personally I am starting to believe it might be NLNET (https://nlnet.nl/ https://nlnet.nl/) but what are your thoughts on it?
- yanokwa 11mo agoI think open-source leaders who want sustainable resourcing should focus on building obvious paths for people who find ongoing value in their project to contribute. That to me is the best return-on-investment. If it's a library, make it easy for developers to contribute code. If it's an app, make it easy for individuals/businesses who value it to pay (e.g., cloud hosting). I gave a talk about this at the launch of WHO's Open Source Program Office[1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/live/yNK27_6MrF8?t=1215s https://www.youtube.com/live/yNK27_6MrF8?t=1215s
- ekjhgkejhgk 11mo agoAnyone wanna share some cool channels?
- ikesau 11mo agoMy brother's got an instance for canadian urbanism and fediverse engineering: https://video.canadiancivil.com https://video.canadiancivil.com
- wrxd 11mo agohttps://tinkerbetter.tube/c/veronicaexplains/videos https://tinkerbetter.tube/c/veronicaexplains/videos she’s also on YouTube but it doesn’t hurt to use PeerTube and get out of Google’s reach
- ekjhgkejhgk 11mo agoI was watching the rsync video and she mentions the scenario where you run rsync with the remote as source, and the remote drive isn't mounted correctly and you end up deleting local. LOL
- Animats 11mo agoI put up metaverse rendering tests on Hardlimit. https://video.hardlimit.com/c/aninats/videos https://video.hardlimit.com/c/aninats/videos (It's discouraging having put in so much effort on trying to make the Metaverse work, and then having the entire sector die.)
- ekjhgkejhgk 11mo agoI'm happy that it did. It was a trick to get people to spend more time online so that facebook can make even more money off people's time and attention.
- butz 11mo agoMakers @ https://makertube.net/ https://makertube.net/
- prmoustache 11mo agopeertube is in that weird space where the software is good technically but is overkill for home users and small entities[1] and moderation, bandwith and storage cost makes it a bit difficult and expensive to host large public shared instances unless you find a way to monetize it. I guess it is more an alternative for Microsoft Stream than youtube really as it is more likely to be used as an internal video communication platform for a company than a public video streaming platform. [1] if the audience is small, you are just fine sharing vids using the html video tags
- graemep 11mo ago> if the audience is small, you are just fine sharing vids using the html video tags Yet people do not do that.
- zamadatix 11mo agoI think that's more a measurement of demand volume than anything. It's a VERY tight squeeze between "I'll just send this file directly to the few people I want to show it" and "I want to show this to anyone" to the point no matter what is done by those people it'll seem like nobody does that unless it's also done in the other categories.
- cyberax 11mo agoI actually run my own PeerTube instance. I'm mirroring videos in my RSS feeds from Patreon and Youtube there. And I also have a handful of my own family videos.
- giancarlostoro 11mo ago> find a way to monetize it If only there were a smart way to build a cryptocoin without the environmental mess of miners, but where you earn coinage from seeding videos. I feel like you'd want people to have a desktop client to let you seed in the background then award some sort of virtual currency that can be sold later. I hate to sound like a crypto-bro but I can't think of anything else more fitting for something already decentralized.
- roughly 11mo agoI've been working to get more involved with, eg, mutual aid groups and other forms of local capacity and resiliency building over the last year - one thing that's stuck out to me is how many of these groups' public face is an Instagram site. That might not have been existential a couple years ago, but given what we're seeing now with, for instance, Paramount making a rival bid for Warner based solely on their coziness with the current administration, it doesn't feel like the corporate media ecosystem is going to be an even "squint and you can kind of pretend" neutral territory for organizing and information dissemination going forward. For all that tools like PeerTube, Mastodon, etc are clunkier and more limited than things like YouTube, Bluesky, etc, I think that argument is increasingly going to be irrelevant to their value - we need to start ensuring our capacity to go from 0-1 on media distribution, not from 10-100 or 100+.
- immibis 11mo agoThe problem is that everyone is reading Instagram. I don't understand why. I made an account recently in order to access a specific thing. I can confirm the app is 100% pure garbage. The home feed is garbage and navigation is awful (to keep you on the home feed). I uninstalled it after they were caught bypassing the permission system to spy on you, by binding localhost ports that web ads would access. The web app is no better garbage-wise (but it can't bind ports). And it's the subcultures that you'd expect to be the most untied from corporate shackles, that are the ones most on Instagram. I don't get it.
- MichaelZuo 11mo agoBy definition someone’s actions, if repeated sufficiently often, define their real character. You don’t have to take claimed pretenses seriously.
- fsflover 11mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
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- renewiltord 11mo agoIs this the J D Power award for open source?
- gnatman 11mo agothe J D Great Responsibility award
- vvladi 11mo agoVideo.edu.nl
- ekjhgkejhgk 11mo agoIs this run by the NL gov? I wish all govs would have something like this. Unfortunately gov are usually about 1 generation behind the state of the art in terms of understanding technology at any point in time.
- utopiah 11mo agoYeay, checkout my instance, been running it for 5 years now! https://video.benetou.fr https://video.benetou.fr
- weberc 11mo agoJust out of curiosity, what type of hardware are you hosting this on? It's very responsive.
- glenstein 11mo agoI've been wondering about angles to get interesting content on there. I wonder, for instance, if one could reach out to a bunch of bands and get permission for mirroring live show recordings on peertube and be off to the races.
- mfkp 11mo agoI host a simpler youtube alternative based on https://www.mediacms.io/ https://www.mediacms.io/ It's not a perfect platform, but generally does well enough from my home server and a gigabit fiber connection.
- pstuart 11mo agoThese are good alternatives to have, but a solid chunk of the "youtube economy" is about selling ad time so creators can make a living creating content. I hate ads as much as the next person but we need to recognize that the issue is not purely technical.
- mfkp 11mo agoDefinitely, hard to compete with YouTube as a revenue source. That being said, my instance is mainly for digitizing and hosting old VHS tapes from my family so they don't get lost over the years. No need for advertising there :)
- cantalopes 11mo agoYoutube used to have quality content (dare i say, content of much higher originality and quality) in times when there was no monetization yet
- BLKNSLVR 11mo agoThat's now on my to-do list, thanks for pointing it out. It looks clean and simple but with some nice features.
- mpingu 11mo agoGood news! good Non Profits are always amazing!
- jancsika 11mo agoSo what are the top 10 (or top 100) videos in terms of being actively replicated across the largest number of Peertube peers? I can't find this anywhere. Prisoner's Dilemma Bonus: I'll upvote all responses if no responses attempt to explain Peertube's philosophy to me.
- RobotToaster 11mo agoContent discovery on it is still difficult, mostly because of the bizarre decision to make federation whitelist based. I'm also sceptical that activitypub is a good fit for video, IPFS could be a better solution. It's a shame the US government killed LBRY.
- vanderZwan 11mo ago> the bizarre decision to make federation whitelist based. Given the multiple articles I've seen on how federation can easily accidentally DDOS mastodon servers, which isn't even a form of federation that primarily uses something as heavy in data usage as video, I do not find that so strange tbh. And that's before factoring in malicious actors or even just careless ones like all the AI scrapers.
- RobotToaster 11mo agoI can see that's probably the logic behind it, but when your biggest USP is federation it still seems like a bad idea to deliberately hobble it.
- styanax 11mo agoIMHO based on my use of the fediverse, fundamentally it's about porn and curtailing unwanted porn in your domain. I'm a user of mastodon.social in the "wee US hours" (before US mods are awake) and run across a lot of hit-and-run porn being pushed to Trending (and I report, etc.). It's a thing, it happens a lot and Lemmy instances have the same problems to fight. Unwanted porn in my eyeballs is sadly a not uncommon experience until you've put in effort to set up blocks and filters on your personal accounts. Peertube being explicitly video based is a natural target for porn pushers.
- sschueller 11mo agoIt's not by choice. I built the original android native client. Every so often I would get an update rejected from the play store because of the default instance content. The app is currently still in a pending appeal because of a NSFW switch already for more than a year. I have abandoned it at this point. https://github.com/sschueller/peertube-android/issues/302#issuecomment-2382234833 https://github.com/sschueller/peertube-android/issues/302#is...
- Beretta_Vexee 11mo agoService reminder: Peertube is mainly developed by academics (at least half of whom are French) to host educational content. Competing with YouTube is not their priority. Their priority is to be able to present a history course on the Second World War without having to contort themselves to avoid saying ‘Nazi’ and pass under the radar of automatic moderation. It's a great project, but it's not a replacement for YouTube, and that's fine.
- fsflover 11mo agoSee also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_public_goods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_public_goods
- anarticle 11mo agoI've been using: https://github.com/graham-walker/youtube-dl-react-viewer https://github.com/graham-walker/youtube-dl-react-viewer with yt-dlp to create complete archives of channels I like because I have so many channels I learn from I don't want YT to randomly disappear them. Mostly language, but loads of deep ML long plays and other things. I'm looking forward to trying out PeerTube. Start archiving now, the internet is rapidly getting user hostile. Drives are cheap, data is expensive.
- xchip 11mo agoNote that now Youtube can claim they are not a monopoly and keep on steamrolling.