Too much $ to host videos from the sound of it. Too many instances vanish. Strict upload limits means it’s more suitable as a gif meme host for your element memes that you don’t care about than an actual YouTube alternative.

Anyone else feel similar?

  • poVoq@slrpnk.net
    7·
    3 years ago

    As others have alluded to, hosting videos is not cheap even with webtorrent enabled. There probably needs to be some sort of subscription model or at least a large enough donation base to run this sustainably. And it is also hard to attract content creators when the incumbent competition is actually paying people for it.

    At least the latest released added automatic mirroring of YT channels so that maybe some content creators will at least put up a mirror on a PeerTube instance.

      • O Galdo@lemmy.ml
        4·
        3 years ago

        You can comment using an account in a different Peertube instance, even using another Fediverse service. But the experience depends on the federation between instances.

        It is possible to access a Peertube video from a lemmy.ml account, using a browser. It is an example: https://lemmy.ml/post/563193

        But you need to follow some steps.

        The simplest way to interact in a Peertube video using Lemmy or Mastodon is using the video URL (you can use Sepia Search to look for videos across different instances) and paste it in the search bar of your Lemmy or Mastodon account.

        You can also search for hashtags or text, but the content needs to be previously federated in some way that I don’t understand.

  • spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    5·
    2 years ago

    I think the business model where peertube really works looks something like a creator co-op. I think Nebula works under a similar system.