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Content 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

Content 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 10mo 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 10mo ago
  I 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 10mo ago
    IMHO 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 10mo ago
It'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...

vanderZwan 10mo 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 10mo ago
I 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 10mo ago
  IMHO 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 10mo ago

It'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...