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What if we started uploading YT videos to PeerTube? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Obviously excluding videos whose authors explicitly do not want to, or copyrighted content that could create problems for individual instances.

By doing this PeerTube could become a kind of youtube database of quality content, excluding shorts and toxic/futile videos. What do you think of this approach? Could it make PT more attractive, or would it create problems for the platform?

I'm sure many creators would do it themselves but don't have time, or many would do it but don't even know about the existence of the Fediverse. Perhaps you could start by making “fan channels,” with all the most important and significant videos on a youtube channel (so without having to stay up-to-date on recent releases).

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[+] [email protected] -10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I partially agree but could this actually not be a problem? Users who watch them on YT will still continue to do so, and instead people who prefer to use FreeTube/NewPipe or alternatives will still continue not actively supporting creators on YT but instead spreading their videos elsewhere. Right now the prediction of PeerTube taking views away from YT is quite utopian for most people.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

Generally it's just better to ask, even if you were legally / ethically / morally in the clear.

if someone doesn't want it, it's going to turn them against peertube / fediverse platforms
they might not understand what it is, and use their platform to share those feelings

Meanwhile if someone DOES want it, letting them know will give them the option to do it themselves. It makes less work for you, and they will feel invested. If they want it and they don't want to upload it themselves, at the very least they'll let their viewers know that peertube is an option.

As for the legal/moral side, I still feel like there's a reason why you shouldn't do this but I'm not aware of what that might be.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

No it couldn't not be a problem. That's their decision to make, not yours or anyone else's.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

The Youtube algorithm that pushes videos (and thus advertisement income) is very opague and there is a kind of mystic cargo cult by many creaters on Youtube trying to game it (but they usually end up being manipulated by Google instead). Suggestions to move outside of this cult is often met with a lot of hostility as they don't want to endanger their imagined connection with the algorithmic gods.