[HN Gopher] PeerTube v7.1 Is Out
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PeerTube v7.1 Is Out
Author : voxadam
Score : 100 points
Date : 2025-03-18 18:56 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (joinpeertube.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (joinpeertube.org)
| flas9sd wrote:
| > .. improves support for Podcast 2.0, allowing users to
| subscribe to channels and play the video audio stream (if
| available) using classic podcast applications
|
| that refers to https://podcasting2.org/podcast-namespace
|
| A youtube channel url provides a rss link too, but it's not
| advertised much and you need a player that can extract the audio
| stream. I often yt-dl the audio from talks/interviews, but it
| could be easier.
|
| The v7 interface came out nice, for examples see
| https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances?sort=-version&p...
| StevenNunez wrote:
| Kind of a pain to find but it's essentially `https://www.youtub
| e.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCY1kMZp...` and you swap out
| the channel ID.
|
| To find the channel ID: 1. Visit the creator's page 2. Click on
| `more` for the full description 3. Scroll down to `Share
| Channel` 4. Click and copy Channel ID
|
| A bit of a pain but I'm glad I know this now!
| presto8 wrote:
| This bookmarklet will show the RSS feed URL in an alert window:
|
| Original Source: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/116549
| javascript: (() => { for (var arrScripts =
| document.getElementsByTagName('script'), i = 0; i <
| arrScripts.length; i++) { if
| (arrScripts[i].textContent.indexOf('externalId') != -1) {
| var channelId = arrScripts[i].textContent.match(/\"externalId\"
| \s*\:\s*\"(.*?)\"/)[1]; var channelRss =
| 'https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=' +
| channelId; var channelTitle =
| document.title.match(/\(?\d*\)?\s?(.*?)\s\-\sYouTube/)[1];
| alert('The rss feed of the channel \'' + channelTitle + '\'
| is:\n' + channelRss); break; }
| } })();
| admiralrohan wrote:
| Why didn't I hear about this earlier? Strange.
| riffic wrote:
| The 7.1 version was just released today.
| iLoveOncall wrote:
| In summary: because it sucks.
|
| All the software from FramaSoft is built from the point of view
| that "FOSS" is all they need and they can ignore everything
| else.
|
| This means that the UX for all of their tools is not just
| subpar compared to alternatives, it is borderline unusable.
|
| Peertube specifically is unusable, has no content and has no
| incentive for content creators.
| liotier wrote:
| > Peertube specifically is unusable, has no content and has
| no incentive for content creators
|
| Peertube users do not need content nor incentives: they just
| want to publish their videos and post links to them to their
| audience.
|
| My photo gallery doesn't need content nor incentives for
| content creators either... I supply the content and my
| content creator incentive is showing my vacation pictures to
| my friends !
| iLoveOncall wrote:
| PeerTube is specifically advertised as a YouTube
| replacement.
| Beretta_Vexee wrote:
| It's presented as an alternative to youtube for current
| Framasoft members and users. It's meant to be understood
| as "Don't put faculty course videos on youtube, which you
| can't necessarily rely on if the subject is sensitive,
| put it on your college or association's PeerTube server."
|
| Framasoft is originally a non-commercial association of
| French academics. They have no desire to replace youtube
| for music videos, unboxing and Minecraft lives.
| hagbard_c wrote:
| > Peertube specifically is unusable, has no content and has
| no incentive for content creators.
|
| I've been using it since its release and it has been usable
| since then. It certainly has content, i.e. the content I put
| on it. I run three sites for different purposes, all from the
| same server which also hosts dozens of other services. The
| incentive for the 'content' (a disgusting concept if I can be
| so bold, as if its role is comparable to that of ballast on a
| ship instead of being the reason the ship sets sail in the
| first place) creator - which is _me_ for the first site,
| others for the other two - is that I get to distribute video
| and audio without getting censored, without advertisements,
| without data leeches trying to profile viewers while still
| being able to reach across the world from that server-under-
| the-stairs.
| blackeyeblitzar wrote:
| I like the idea of a decentralized Google free YouTube. But I
| find these posts about PeerTube, Frama, Mastodon, protocols, etc
| just very confusing. And it's hard to understand how everyday
| people can use this platform or it is even meant for that. Years
| after first hearing of this, it has gone nowhere.
|
| I know this is a negative take but does someone have an
| explanation or an understanding of whether this project means
| anything from a practical standpoint?
| butz wrote:
| Some youtubers are posting their videos to Peertube based video
| sites, like makertube.net , tilvids.com , tinkerbetter.tube ,
| just to name a few. Please share your favorite Peertube
| instances. Sure, there are way less videos to choose from
| compared to youtube, but that leaves more time for productivity
| or for time away from the screen.
| liotier wrote:
| > it's hard to understand how everyday people can use this
| platform
|
| Because they are not platforms: they are software, free to use.
| Their audience is systems administrators, not users.
|
| Either the user is it's own systems administrator, or someone
| else has to do it... And in any case there is infrastructure to
| be paid for. Most users currently prefer someone else to do it
| and the price to be the watching of advertisements.
|
| I believe a sweet halfway point is hosting cooperatives - not
| free of cost, but delivering user-control at a reasonable cost
| to users who do not wish to take on the burden of sysadmining.
| chneu wrote:
| A lot of this is about control over your information.
|
| It isn't about being on YouTube. It's about being able to share
| your media/information in a way that you feel comfortable.
|
| These projects are for people to explore self hosting or
| creating a platform based around the ideology the software
| respects.
|
| I personally self host nearly all my stuff. I'm a
| photographer/videographer/tech contractor and it allows me full
| control over my ecosystem without sacrificing my data.
|
| The folks running these aren't really interested in building a
| big social network or spending hours everyday scrolling what
| other people are doing.
| Beretta_Vexee wrote:
| They don't have a plan to conquer the world, a business plan,
| or anything else. They're just FOSS developers doing stuff that
| interests them. The majority of framasoft developers are French
| and European teachers and academics.
|
| Framasoft is the antithesis of y-combinator.
|
| Sometimes they reach a wide audience, like framapad and
| framadate, which are quite popular in France and Western
| Europe. Partly because they just work and don't require you to
| create an account.
|
| Sometimes nobody really knows who it's for.
|
| Most of the time people often mistakenly think it's an
| isofunctional 1:1 alternative to another product. When it's
| not.
| EcommerceFlow wrote:
| I've always wondered, why doesn't ISIS or other terror groups
| just use this type of distribution for their videos?
| Nextgrid wrote:
| Because it turns out hosting even terrorist videos on existing
| platforms (and dealing with takedowns, etc) is _still_ a better
| user experience than using the "fediverse".
| poulpy123 wrote:
| Because nobody will see them. Moreover the instance that host
| them will be blocked by the main nodes as much as on any
| mainstream social network and managing a server is more work
| and more risk than buying a pirates account to post
| BiteCode_dev wrote:
| Framasoft is really an amazing team. They are basically the
| reason I discovered FOSS when I was younger.
|
| The fact they are still here and supporting so many free services
| is a miracle.
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