Peertube

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A free software to take back control of your videos

Peertube is an open, federated alternative to Youtube without advertising or tracking. On this site, you can find a good Peertube instance, with good rules, good moderation and most importantly a friendly community.

https://joinpeertube.org/

founded 4 years ago

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Peertube's moment might come soon (feddit.de)

submitted 11 months ago by sexy_peach@feddit.de to c/peertube@lemmy.ml

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Youtube, for so many years, was just too good. Yes, they changed the 5 star rating system to likes and dislikes and a few years later disabled dislikes altogether, but their algorithm mostly digs up interesting content and it just works for creators and viewers.

This might change soon. Their new strategy to disallow ad-blockers will frustrate a certain kind of viewer. Those who dislike surveillance and like open-source tech, those who use uBlock Origin and know why.

Just like a few years ago mastodon suddenly reached a certain kind of popularity, because twitter had their first big fuckup, maybe Peertube is next. It certainly is the most polished decentralized solution that doesn't use a blockchain. Creators or fans could easily host their own videos, fans can watch it, without ads.

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[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I think if anything close to what happened to Lemmy would happen to PeerTube it would break most of the instances.

[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Apart from the fact that none of us seems to be really on top of the whole sign-up thing, I really don't see how.

I mean sure if anybody manages to get sign-up working and the the hordes come rolling in, sure, but as it is they'll just hit a blank unresponsive wall and have to make their own instances.

Wont they?