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[–] [email protected] 124 points 1 day ago (101 children)

What else has such a catalog? Going to be hard to persuade creators to host their own content with ads and subscriptions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (14 children)

We really should be working together to upload content from youtube to peertube instances.

Don't ask for permission. Just do it. Civilly disobey.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (9 children)

And who is going to pay for the bandwidth and storage space on those peertube instances?

I mean, I too want to get away from YouTube, but it is going to be very difficult to convince people to pay for what YouTube gives away for free.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The people who set up the instances usually also are responsible for paying to keep them active.

but it is going to be very difficult to convince people to pay for what YouTube gives away for free.

I mean, they're already there. Have you tried using Peertube?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah and it turns out that this isn’t working well. https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/5783 Video is an unsolved problem, it’s great people are working on it but we aren’t there yet. PeerTube is not a viable YouTube alternative.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They are already there, and someone is paying for the storage and bandwidth for what's already there. Asking for random people to start pulling videos from YouTube and uploading them to someone else's server is going to very quickly make that server go away.

And yes, I have tried Peertube. My experience is when I click a Peertube link from Lemmy, 9/10 it is a dead link.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Newest version of lemmy fixed this quite well. Take a look: https://lemmy.world/post/27751672

Old lemmy broke a lot of activityhub stuff unfortunately.

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