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Peertube's moment might come soon (feddit.de)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/5294605

Youtube, for so many years, was just too good. Yes, they changed the 5 star rating system to likes and dislikes and a few years later disabled dislikes altogether, but their algorithm mostly digs up interesting content and it just works for creators and viewers.

This might change soon. Their new strategy to disallow ad-blockers will frustrate a certain kind of viewer. Those who dislike surveillance and like open-source tech, those who use uBlock Origin and know why.

Just like a few years ago mastodon suddenly reached a certain kind of popularity, because twitter had their first big fuckup, maybe Peertube is next. It certainly is the most polished decentralized solution that doesn't use a blockchain. Creators or fans could easily host their own videos, fans can watch it, without ads.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What about bandwidth? Video is huge. Not everyone can handle P2P video.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah that’s the big thing that I think is gonna hold this back for the time being.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure the fediverse is really developed to the point of hosting a large scale video platform

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

Yeah I totally agree. I think right now it's fairly up to the challenge of stuff like reddit and twitter sorta platforms though it definitely remains to be seen how well it would presently scale up to userbases as large as reddit or twitter.

A video platform anywhere near as popular as YouTube is an entirely different beast.

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