[HN Gopher] PeerTube 6.3
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PeerTube 6.3
Author : jrepinc
Score : 166 points
Date : 2024-09-18 12:13 UTC (10 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (joinpeertube.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (joinpeertube.org)
| crtasm wrote:
| Main bulletpoints
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| * Separate audio and video streams for more flexibility
|
| * Browse subtitles in the transcription widget
|
| * Set up Youtube-dl for smoother imports
| throwaway2046 wrote:
| The first one is such a simple feature yet I find it crucial
| for all music/podcast listeners. Not every video needs to be
| watched.
| black_puppydog wrote:
| Peertube is another one of those projects I've been using more
| and more over the last months. It's mostly a matter of being
| finding interesting content over time.
|
| Like many of the other open-source/libre alternatives to big
| platforms, there are few lock-in (aka network) effects, and so
| platform usage increase tends to be sloooow (aka organic).
| Extremely unsexy for 10x unicorn VC investment I guess. But for a
| user who wants to see interesting stuff it's great!
|
| Before anyone interjects: yes, I'm aware that peertube won't work
| for all creators. NotJustBikes has been very clear that it would
| simply not be an option for them. Nebula (creator coop) seems to
| be the best compromise for them for now.
|
| Anyhow, nice list of new features, much appreciated! <3
| pwdisswordfishz wrote:
| Nebula is (most likely) not a coop.
|
| https://medium.com/@cameron-paul/who-actually-owns-nebula-95...
| black_puppydog wrote:
| Interesting read. Although the "Update" section at the top
| finishes thus:
|
| > Ultimately the worst thing Nebula has done is provide some
| misleading marketing spin. They're still an infinitely better
| deal for creators than YouTube.
| kimixa wrote:
| I'm more interested in the financials and funding of the
| service - it's "easy" to provide a better service if you're
| losing money burning VC cash, but we know that'll never be
| sustainable.
|
| If they are better for the creators while _also_ being at
| least cashflow-neutral, that 's a much bigger deal IMHO than
| specifics on /who/ owns it.
| shadowgovt wrote:
| Do you have a link to NotJustBikes' thoughts on the topic? I
| can think of a few reasons it wouldn't work for them but I'm
| curious what they hit.
| black_puppydog wrote:
| Just a brief exchange here:
|
| https://social.notjustbikes.com/@notjustbikes/11277626354576.
| ..
|
| But from that little, I'd _interpret_ (!!!) that
|
| a) It's much less of a hassle to use nebula, and
|
| b) economically and power-wise, they see nebula like a
| creators' union.
|
| It makes sense to me, I don't have grief with this. :)
| bawolff wrote:
| > Like many of the other open-source/libre alternatives to big
| platforms, there are few lock-in (aka network) effects
|
| I feel like the biggest problem is that this solves problems
| that are different then the ones most people have with youtube.
|
| Like from what i understand from the creator side, the creators
| want a bigger piece of the ad revenue pie. Peertube isnt going
| to help with that.
| beeflet wrote:
| >Like many of the other open-source/libre alternatives to big
| platforms, there are few lock-in (aka network) effects, and so
| platform usage increase tends to be sloooow (aka organic).
| Extremely unsexy for 10x unicorn VC investment I guess. But for
| a user who wants to see interesting stuff it's great!
|
| I think you are missing the point: there is pretty much no
| money to be made with peertube. It's just people using their
| own bandwidth and time to host and make videos they want to
| see.
|
| >NotJustBikes has been very clear that it would simply not be
| an option for them. Nebula (creator coop) seems to be the best
| compromise for them for now.
|
| Because there is no monetization angle to peertube aside from
| donations. But whatever, youtube was great before monetization
| so I figure there is no need for these kinds of filmmakers in
| the long run.
| black_puppydog wrote:
| I think you misunderstood my comment. I'm very happy there's
| no investment angle in peertube, big fan of the "product" as
| it is.
|
| And I understand full well why it's not an option for NJB.
| For starters because they were very clear about it when they
| wrote about it on mastodon. :D
| bluGill wrote:
| There are only a few creators so much better known that I will
| follow them. Most of the time I don't care who shows me that
| interesting content, so long as it is interesting good enough.
| simlevesque wrote:
| Framasoft are so cool. I've been following them for over a decade
| (starting with Framablog) and they never ceased to impress me.
| shadowgovt wrote:
| How are people finding performance on PeerTube?
|
| My biggest gripe with videos shared on Mastodon is that with so
| many nodes hosted on personal infrastructure on the wrong side of
| the consumer / producer gap in the way the modern web is laid out
| (i.e. hosted over a consumer cable connection with asymmetric
| upload / download bandwidth), trying to play a video often feels
| like I've been zapped back into the late-'90s and am waiting for
| an animated GIF to download off of USENET. I'm wondering if
| people generally find videos on PeerTube come through faster.
| beeflet wrote:
| It's generally bad unless you have a peer or two. The only
| instance i've used that's fast is videos.lukesmith.xyz but
| thats probably because his fans self-host and mirror his videos
| in webtorrent
| apitman wrote:
| I already have a Fediverse account on my own domain (via
| masto.host, an excellent service). There's no way for me to reuse
| that ActivityPub actor with PeerTube. The fact that making this
| possible isn't a huge priority for the community gives me serious
| reservations about building on AvtivityPub.
| vander_elst wrote:
| Are there any known legal actions taken for people sharing
| copyrighted material? I know that in some countries e.g. Germany
| it is dangerous to share via P2P as it's quite probable that some
| law firm will sue you.
| beeflet wrote:
| If you are worried about legal action, you can buy a seedbox
| anonymously in some 3rd world country to host your stuff.
| People use those a lot for private trackers in the bittorrent
| world, so I figure same applies to webtorrent.
|
| Of course, you can just go without p2p and just do client-
| server. That's a bit slower though, but you could do that over
| tor or something.
|
| In the long run, maybe you could figure out webtorrent over
| i2p, I've heard p2p has had some success over i2p with
| applications like i2psnark but IDK as i've never used it and
| IDK how it would interact with WebRTC data streams (might need
| some sort of proxy?)
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