Also, since back when I last looked for youtube alternatives, many that seemed good turned out to use things like NFT and the sort, I feel compelled to ask:
Does it use technologies such as that, or are its instances just plain usual self-hosted sites?
PeerTube is great, it just needs more content. The only instance with good content is tilvids.com and there isn’t much there other than Linux content. The problem with PeerTube is that there’s no creator funding model, so creators don’t have any incentive to use PeerTube instead of YouTube where they can get paid.
Depends on in what way you're looking for a youtube alternative!
I think peertube might be fine if you're looking for a way to host your own videos, but it's propably not a good place to just browse for video content the way you might with youtube. I think the most solid alternative for that is Nebula. It costs like a dollar a month IIRC and has a couple big name video easayist kind of types. It doesn't really have anything to do with the fediverse or anything, but a majority of it is owned by the creators and from what I understand it is more generous per view than youtube, plus it has a buissiness model that doesn't rely on serving you adds and selling your data.
Iirc, Nebula is one of those NFT video hosting sites I found, so not much of an option. And regarding lack of contents, all social medias start like that, so I don't see it as a problem per se, since it can potentially still grow.
I think RSS would be the best Youtube alternative. RSS works great for just about anything you want to broadcast. I don't know why people refuse to use it for video.
Im looking for a good place to host education/academic presentation type clips. Plus also London arts/culture things Ive made. Any suggestions for a good instance? UK based preferably.
Exactly this. I don't know what to do with a homepage that shows one new video per week in the federated feed. And many of those new videos are games I don't know or Blender videos.
All social medias start slow, unless you have a parent company to vouch for you, e.g. Threads with Facebook, so the current population doesn't sound like a major issue. And Odysee was one of those NFT platforms I found.
I have tried using peertube a couple of times, there are some good videos there but it's also a place where, and this is my personal opinion, the wackadoos gather, because there's less quality content shouting them out.
It could be a viable YouTube replacement but it needs a lot of independent server hosts federating the content so that you get quality of speed and playback and it needs more people posting content to that.
In other words it's halfway there, but it needs participation, money and development to get the rest of the way.
Participation can be worked on, and contents come right after, be it bad or good (Youtube's also full of low quality contents).
Development (if talking about the engine) can be worked on. Even Kbin Social had some "episodes" because of limited code recently, and now it's working again. e.e"
So possibly that can be worked on too.
About money, that's usually the hardest part, but hopefully people will be conscious about upkeep of their favorite platforms.
So perhaps the PeerTube instances can be a nice option.
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