Just jumped over from Reddit and if I hadn’t read the comment about sh.itjust.works I probably would have no idea how to get started with Lemmy. Hopefully with more publicity there will be a more streamlined signup process a la new mobile apps or certain servers trending when you search for it.

Didn’t see some of my old communities from Reddit on here yet but I guess it’s time to make them!

Also - does anyone have any good alternatives to Youtube on the Fediverse? Is Odysee popular?

[–] Undearius@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

does anyone have any good alternatives to Youtube on the Fediverse?

Peertube would be the most popular. It works the same as Lemmy that there isn't just one single server/instance that hosts all the videos. A popular one is tilvids.com but there are others

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm unique in this, but I firmly believe video creators should just make torrents, and post links to them from whatever site / forum they choose.

Torrents have already solved the big static data problem, we only need a place (like here), where people can post links.

[–] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe Peertube has support for webtorrent streaming so viewers upload the video to other viewers as well.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Ya, but unfortunately only a tiny minority of seeders use webtorrents, and peertube still has to store every video locally. Because of that, peertube instances find that they can't last long, because of the huge disk space required.

[–] Undearius@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was just thinking about this. The content creators already have the original quality copy stored on their machines.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yep, and they could share those high res versions too.