PeerTube v6.3 released!
PeerTube v6.3 released!
This is the last minor release before v7, but it's packed with interesting new features! Let's have a look :) Separate audio and video streams for mor...
I feel so bad for peertube. It's such a great idea, but until it has a full platform wide search options, and regular content producers in areas OTHER than technology, it will never catch on.
Let's not forget about the fact that there need to be general purpose viewer instances that users can sign up to for watching content, because uh while accessing through Mastodon or Lemmy is a cool feature people want to be able to save Video lists and have watch history, things that don't work at all or well when using a Link aggregator or a Microblogging service to access the content.
The bigger issue is monetization. YouTube is popular in no small part because creators are trying to make money.
There's plenty of room for creators who don't want monetization or can monetize things themselves by utilizing product placements (if the platform were popular enough).
The biggest problem is federation (or lack thereof). I've looked at A LOT of instances, and most of them either don't federate at all, or only federate with a handful of other instances, as opposed to Lemmy or Mastodon that federate with thousands of others...
This means it is deeply segregated and discoverability is virtually nada, not to mention the default algorithms are completely useless and uneditable.
It does have a “full platform wide search”.
So isn't it federated?
It is
