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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19900393

> PeerTube is a decentralized and federated alternative to YouTube. The goal of PeerTube is not to replace YouTube but to offer a viable alternative using the strength of ActivityPub and P2P protocols. > > Being built on ActivityPub means PeerTube is able to be part of a bigger social network, the Fediverse (the Federated Universe). On the other hand, P2P technologies help PeerTube to solve the issue of money, inbound with all streaming platform : With PeerTube, you don't need to have a lot of bandwidth available on your server to host a PeerTube platform because all users (which didn't disable the feature) watching a video on PeerTube will be able to share this same video to other viewers. > > If you are curious about PeerTube, I can't recommend you enough to check the official website to learn more about the project. If after that you want to try to use PeerTube as a content creator, you can try to find a platform available there to register or host yourself your own PeerTube platform on your own server. > > The development of PeerTube is actually sponsored by Framasoft, a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, a group of friends convinced that an emancipating digital world is possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on real world and online with and for you! > > Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events and Meetup. > > If you want to contribute to PeerTube, feel free to: > > * report bugs and give your feedback on Github or on our forums > * submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform > * Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide > * Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube.

shared from: https://lemmy.giftedmc.com/post/701784

> The peertube kodi addon has been unavailable for a long time and it's sad because peertube has a lot of cool videos. > > That's why I decided to make a new one for the python 3 generation of kodi. It is available on the official repository under "next gen peertube addon" or plugin.video. pt > > The app is pretty basic but works (tested on kodi for linux). Disclaimer: For some reason, the libreelec version of kodi does not seem to work with it yet. I'm troubleshooting the issue atm. > > Feel free to download and test the app, check the source on github and leave a star or support the project if you wish.

Status #YouTube-Konsum: Invidious, piped, NewPipe, FreeTube werden geblockt (#Loginzwang mit Googlekonto), #Tor scheint noch nicht geblockt zu werden. Das blockt die behämmerte Werbung natürlich nicht, aber halt ungerichtete, gestern was auf Skandinavisch. Ton aus, warten, nervt, aber generiert keine validen #Trackingdaten!? Ist das auch euer Status?

Hatte YouTube mit Kondom gerade als Fortbildungsmedium z.B. zu IT-Themen entdeckt, und natürlich auch zur Unterhaltung. Musik, Reactions.

Wie kriegen wir die #Contentanbieter ohne unmittelbares #monetäresInteresse bloß ins #Fediverse und / oder wenigstens auf #Twitch, wenigstens als Crossposts, also, parallele Veröffentlichungen? Der ZWANG in die #Feedbackschleifen, für immer mehr Daten in ihre »#KI«-Datenbasen, zeichnet sich immer mehr ab.

Wir fokussieren in der Menschenrechts-Datenschutz-Blase klaro auf Politik/»Brot«. »Spiele« sind genauso wichtig, sie reproduzieren #Kultur.

@digitalcourage @christian @annaelbe @Privacymatters @peertube @[email protected]

\#askaquestion #fediverse #peertube @peertube

Does anyone know where I can create an account for PeerTube and where?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15180175

> In this case, it's one specific channel: https://diode.zone/c/andybalaam_lectures/videos?s=1. That is, [email protected]. It's run by @[email protected] / @[email protected] > > AFAICT, federation hasn't been working from this channel to lemmy for ~3 months, for all the instances I checked (perhaps a particular lemmy version broke things?). > > EG: > * the view on lemmy.ml > * on lemm.ee > * on programming.dev > * and on endlesstalk.org > > By comparison: > * mastodon.social is up-to-date: https://mastodon.social/@[email protected] > * And on hachyderm.io, following the user (rather than the channel) is also up-to-date: https://hachyderm.io/deck/@[email protected] > > I'm not following anything else on peertube so I don't know how common this is (and I couldn't find anything on the GitHub issues), but different behaviour on mastodon and lemmy would superficially indicate that it's a lemmy problem, which would be a shame given that lemmy is much better for consuming peertube.

I host my own peertube instance and deeply believe in the concept but I have trouble staying off youtube since the content I found so far on pt isnt enough for me.

On yt, I mostly watch gamers nexus and gameranx, both for their chill demeanor and dry humour but also high quality editing.

On pt I have found TheLinuxProject which is awesome but thats mostly it.

Does anyone know high quality general tech/gaming related news channels I could watch?

Also, in case you‘d like to watch my videos (minecraft, phasmophobia and tech tutorials).

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9820251

> PeerTube is a decentralized and federated alternative to YouTube. The goal of PeerTube is not to replace YouTube but to offer a viable alternative using the strength of ActivityPub and P2P protocols. > > Being built on ActivityPub means PeerTube is able to be part of a bigger social network, the Fediverse (the Federated Universe). On the other hand, P2P technologies help PeerTube to solve the issue of money, inbound with all streaming platform : With PeerTube, you don't need to have a lot of bandwidth available on your server to host a PeerTube platform because all users (which didn't disable the feature) watching a video on PeerTube will be able to share this same video to other viewers. > > If you are curious about PeerTube, I can't recommend you enough to check the official website to learn more about the project. If after that you want to try to use PeerTube as a content creator, you can try to find a platform available there to register or host yourself your own PeerTube platform on your own server. > > The development of PeerTube is actually sponsored by Framasoft, a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, a group of friends convinced that an emancipating digital world is possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on real world and online with and for you! > > Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events and Meetup. > > If you want to contribute to PeerTube, feel free to: > > * report bugs and give your feedback on Github or on our forums > * submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform > * Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide > * Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube.

Sorry if this is asked a lot but I'm looking for a peertube instance to mirror my youtube videos to.

I upload a mix of videos about games, dev logs, music, and occasional random stuff I made (including ytps). So a general purpose instance with longevity would be ideal. Thanks!

Hey everyone, I saw this post about peertube channels being able to be seen as communities on lemmy, but I noticed that the comments don't show on the community post.

I was wondering if anyone else was tracking anything about this already, or any other peertube to lemmy integrations, like the embedded video playback from peertube (new feature) or peertube's remote account features (comment using any fediverse account) not working with Lemmy users (at least not me right now).

Matrix chat about it

Update 01: Being tracked here on Lemmy's repo. Still interested in everyone's thoughts.

> PeerTube, the decentralized and open-source alternative to video broadcasting services such as YouTube, Vimeo, and Twitch, has launched its version 6. This comes after only two minor versions were released, with PeerTube 5.2 launched in June and PeerTube 5.1 in March.

> The 5.1 version introduced an “asking for an account” feature, a “back-to-live” button, and enhanced the authentication plugin. The 5.2 version improved RSS feeds, added an option to set livestream replay privacy, enhanced mouse-free navigation, and notably, introduced a remote transcoding feature.

> The latest release, PeerTube v6, provides users with the ability to password-protect videos, a new video storyboard feature (to preview videos on mouse hover), and the option to upload a new version of a video (to correct or update it, for example). It also introduces video chapters among other features.

> In addition to these new features, PeerTube v6 has removed WebTorrent to focus on HLS, and features an enhanced video player. It also comes with improved SEO and accessibility, along with a host of other changes, improvements, and bug fixes. Finally, PeerTube has conducted stress tests and provided performance and configuration recommendations for its live-streaming feature.

from alternativeto.net/news/2023/11…

@peertube

Looking for a PeerTube instance for game devlogs.

I have a crafts channel on makertube.net already but would prefer to spread myself around in case one server goes down. Also tbh I'm not even sure devlogs would count as "making" anyway.

Tried the instance finder on the PT homepage but it's pretty useless so if anyone knows where is stable and welcomes this kind of content I'd appreciate it! Thanks.

@peertube #GameDev #PeerTube #Devlog #Fediverse

The way I see it, the mobile app ecosystem for PeerTube has yet to take off, in spite of the fact that it has a seemingly decent API. More people appear to be using the platform than ever before, which is great, but we still seem to be lacking a general ecosystem that Mastodon or even Lemmy has.

To my knowledge, these are the only apps I've ever found that work with PeerTube:

• Thorium: Supports video playback and sign-in, doesn't support comments or replies or seemingly any social features?
• P2Play: Seems to support commenting, but abandoned 3 years ago or so.
• NewPipe: Actually pretty good as a player, but not really designed around the social API at all. Makes sense, given the app is more of a "download and play videos without an account" type of video app.
• FediLab: Supposedly supports PeerTube, actually seems like a featureful client, but I've always kind of felt iffy about whether a general multi-platform app could make for a good experience.

It just feels as though we're lacking a quality mobile client for PeerTube, and I think it's a missed opportunity. Do we currently now of any other efforts out there to build for the platform?

cross-posted from: https://diode.zone/videos/watch/0e60bcb9-10bd-4122-aca9-fcf06d5404f0

> Playlist > > Hello I am recording a few episodes of Krastorio 2. > > I am playing with the companion mods that are recommended by the Krastorio team. No other mods are used. > > Let's see where this takes us!

The NGI Zero coalition is well-represented at the #NGIFORUM23, November 15-16 in Brussels/online.

@gotosocial, @peertube, @renchap of #mastodon & @ps will contribute to the #fediverse track. @fsfe offers a workshop on #FOSS licensing and copyright and @TauriApps joins the impact track. And there are many more. Check out the full list of NGI0 speakers at https://nlnet.nl/events/20231115/index.html.

The NGI Forum is the annual event of the @EC\_NGI's Next Generation Internet initiative.

Hi all. I recently decided to try PeerTube as a creator, and was quite surprised by a lot of what I found. Thought a writeup from the perspective of a newbie to the platform might be useful for others who are considering it.

Disclaimer: Some of the following might not be entirely accurate but it’s just what I’ve picked up over the last week. Corrections and tips very welcome!

First up, I’m already a small-time craft YouTuber with around 7500 subs. Nothing earth-shattering, but enough to be pretty comfortable putting myself out there on the internet.

I’ve been on Mastodon about a year, and on Lemmy since just before the Great Migration, with two accounts and a decent amount of activity on both. I’ve also poked around various other Fedi bits like PixelFed, Bookwyrm, Firefish etc. So essentially I went into PeerTube thinking I knew what to expect.

Things learned:

• It’s surprisingly difficult to find an instance.

The instance search is hard to find, and then it’s very limited with only 25 results (many of which are private). It claims to be pulling from this much larger list, so idk what the problem is there. The first time I tried to join PT, this was my stopping point.

I’ve now joined MakerTube, an instance dedicated to makers, artists etc. This fits my content perfectly, but the only way I heard about it was word of mouth. How many other budding instances are out there with no way to tell us about it? Who knows.

Instances need a way to be found, and people need a way to find instances. In the meantime this is a huge barrier to adoption, so if you know of a cool instance drop it down in the replies and help people out!

• Account vs channel

On signup you’re asked to create an account with a username, and then can optionally create a channel if you want to upload videos. Pretty standard stuff, you might think? Nah.

Most of your subscribers will be on Mastodon. It’s the biggest Fedi service by far, I imagine very few people are actually signed up on PT as a viewer account. The issue here is that when videos are federated to Mastodon, it’s from your user account and not your channel so they all end up following the user instead.

This gets your videos to your subscribers just fine, but does make your channel sub count look a bit anaemic 😅

So yeah, learn from my mistakes. If you want your subscribers to see videos coming from your actual branded channel name, you need to make sure that’s your user account name instead and then use channels more like playlists. And no, you can’t use the same name for both, I tried that already!

• Categories are useless, tags are not

Much like YouTube, the default categories on PeerTube are extremely limited to the point of being useless. There is a plugin instance owners can run to add custom categories for their instance, but whether that gets federated out in a useful way I couldn’t tell you.

Tags, however, are interesting. I’ve not seen them used anywhere in the PT interface, presumably they’re used in search. But remember what we said about most of your subs being from Mastodon?

It turns out when you publish a video with a tag like “cross stitch”, spaces will be removed and it’ll be added as a Mastodon hashtag “#crossstitch”. So anyone following that tag, can see it. Pretty sure I’ve had a few subs just from that feature alone, although the first time my own face popped up in my #crossstitch feed unexpectedly it was a bit of a jump scare.

• Licences

When you upload a video you’ll be asked to pick a licence from a list, and no further info or explanation is given on what any of them mean. It turns out, as far as I can tell, they map to the general Creative Commons licences here. But it’s very much not explicit and I was surprised to find it so difficult to dig up info on what they are.

• Viewers won’t just come to you organically because search is bad

PeerTube from the viewer’s side is actually a LOT worse than from the creator side. So it makes sense that there are very few viewers. I’m hopeful that as the experience gets a bit smoother it’ll become more natural for people to discover channels, but so far it’s pretty terrible.

The main issue is that search is almost unusable, and I am absolutely not the sort of person who throws around the word “unusable”.

Rather than the organic federated search results of Masto or Lemmy it seems like on PeerTube your results are dictated in large part by your admin’s settings, and choices they’ve made about where to pull from. So assuming you can find a suitable looking instance, this might be something you want to ask your admin about.

There is something approaching a global search, but assuming you find and remember to use it you’ll get duplicate results in just about the most inefficient layout I’ve ever seen in my life.

• Sorting algorithms? Also bad

Since I joined MakerTube last week, the default homepage sort of “hot” has shown the same first few results without change. Some as much as two months old.

It’s a similar problem to the ones Lemmy was having, and those only started to be looked at seriously once we had bigger numbers and people started complaining about seeing the same posts over and over. So again hopefully as more creators take the plunge and more viewers show up, these things will be dealt with.

• Enough whinging

There’s plenty to like about PeerTube. I love the idea of a themed instance. I love how easy it is to import my back catalogue. I love the wider Fediverse integration and how easy it is for someone on another service to follow my channel from there. I love that Jan Beta chose the same instance as me, it makes me feel cool seeing his videos next to mine.

But I’ve seen various discussions with people noping out of PeerTube based on hitting the same roadbumps I did. So if this post helped, great. If you want to ask questions, feel free.

And if you happen to be into kind of awkward crafting videos, well, you know where to find me!

So, I've just set up my own peertube instance over at tube.puggaard-nyborg.dk, and that was surprising simple.

Or I should say that the instructions were surprisingly clear and correct, more so than what I've seen from other comparable open-source system.

Anyway, easy-peasy.

And now I want to follow some other instances, so I go looking at PeerTube instances.

And ye Gods are there a lot of ... people who don't agree with me politically.

Do any of you people out there know of a listing of instances-instances?

I'd settle for an instances-instance that leans anarchist, if you of any such beast?

So I went down the list of PeerTube clients in F-Droid, and the only two that let me pick my instance / login are TubeLab and P2Play. They look nice but there's a problem: they don't understand login with 2FA, and I don't really want to drop 2FA as I always use the extra security whenever it's available.

!

Any other Android client you're aware of that would work for me?

In the meantime, I'll open a feature request for those two apps.

EDIT:

Uuh nevermind, I answered my own question: when I went to open an issue with TubeLab, the repo says it's now part of FediLab - which, inconveniently, doesn't come up when you search for PeerTube in F-Droid.

I installed FediLab, and lo and behold... 2FA!

!

And with that, voila: I'm logged in:

!

Brilliant!

PeerTube is a decentralized and federated alternative to YouTube. The goal of PeerTube is not to replace YouTube but to offer a viable alternative using the strength of ActivityPub and WebTorrent protocols.

Being built on ActivityPub means PeerTube is able to be part of a bigger social network, the Fediverse (the Federated Universe). On the other hand, WebTorrents and related technologies help PeerTube to solve the issue of money, inbound with all streaming platform : With PeerTube, you don't need to have a lot of bandwidth available on your server to host a PeerTube platform because all users (which didn't disable the feature) watching a video on PeerTube will be able to share this same video to other viewers.

If you are curious about PeerTube, I can't recommend you enough to check the official website to learn more about the project. If after that you want to try tu use PeerTube as a content creator, you can try to find a platform available there to register or host yourself your own PeerTube platform on your own server.

The development of PeerTube is actually sponsored by Framasoft, a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, a group of friends convinced that an emancipating digital world is possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on real world and online with and for you!

Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events.

If you want to contribute to PeerTube, feel free to:

• report bugs and give your feedback on Github or on our forums
• submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform
• Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide
• Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube.