After a lot of work, we're happy to announce the #PeerTube Android application is available on #fdroid 🎉 :peertube:
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.framasoft.peertube/
If you’re an organization looking for a platform in which to publish your videos so that they can be spread in your newsletter/social media and embedded on your website, it’s probably a very good alternative.
If you’re a content creator who runs on donations and has a dedicated following already, it might be good. And as the fediverse grows, it will only get better.
For a lot of the content creators who live off engagement and clicks, it’s much less likely to become a viable alternative. The kind of content people will watch for hours, but that nobody would ever consider paying for.
I think it’s not about one platform replacing all of YouTube, but about providing viable alternatives for specific uses.
I’d say it depends on your uses.
If you’re an organization looking for a platform in which to publish your videos so that they can be spread in your newsletter/social media and embedded on your website, it’s probably a very good alternative.
If you’re a content creator who runs on donations and has a dedicated following already, it might be good. And as the fediverse grows, it will only get better.
For a lot of the content creators who live off engagement and clicks, it’s much less likely to become a viable alternative. The kind of content people will watch for hours, but that nobody would ever consider paying for.
I think it’s not about one platform replacing all of YouTube, but about providing viable alternatives for specific uses.