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Is PeerTube a good Youtube alternative? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Auster@kbin.social to c/fediverse@kbin.social

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Also, since back when I last looked for youtube alternatives, many that seemed good turned out to use things like NFT and the sort, I feel compelled to ask:
Does it use technologies such as that, or are its instances just plain usual self-hosted sites?

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[–] Bizarroland@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have tried using peertube a couple of times, there are some good videos there but it's also a place where, and this is my personal opinion, the wackadoos gather, because there's less quality content shouting them out.

It could be a viable YouTube replacement but it needs a lot of independent server hosts federating the content so that you get quality of speed and playback and it needs more people posting content to that.

In other words it's halfway there, but it needs participation, money and development to get the rest of the way.

[–] Auster@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Participation can be worked on, and contents come right after, be it bad or good (Youtube's also full of low quality contents).

Development (if talking about the engine) can be worked on. Even Kbin Social had some "episodes" because of limited code recently, and now it's working again. e.e"
So possibly that can be worked on too.

About money, that's usually the hardest part, but hopefully people will be conscious about upkeep of their favorite platforms.

So perhaps the PeerTube instances can be a nice option.