Getting started with PeerTube

[cyjyar]

Sadly all of those decentralized / federated app all have this same accessibility issue.

Maybe there is some sort of business case, or at least some preliminary solution to get there, that offers a middle ground between "you're only the customer of our SaaS" and "you have to be your own IT department"? something like a standardized cloud-ready deployment, where instead of only d/l the server side app, the site also points you to the cloud providers that also support that app (or this standard) so that you're just 3 clicks away from running your own instance.

That'd be nice, not sure it would pay for the team developing that standard though.

[f00_]

I can't think of any projects that use it off the top of my head, but i'm pretty sure i've seen "one click setup" buttons for heroku and digital ocean

binder is kinda similar for python jupyter notebooks

https://www.digitalocean.com/products/one-click-apps/

https://blog.heroku.com/heroku-button

https://mybinder.org/

edit: after looking at the github, they actually have this with YunoHost (whatever that is): https://install-app.yunohost.org/?app=peertube

[rwmj]

I doubt YouTube would ever have been successful if it had required this level of explanation.

[derefr]

Half of the explanation here consists of explaining the very-slightly-different-but-still-entirely-natural ontology of PeerTube, to people who were expecting exactly the ontology of YouTube.

For someone who has never used YouTube as a content creator, a "Getting Started" guide for PeerTube would actually be quite short.

[lucideer]

This website isn't a service, it's the website for a piece of software you can download and host yourself. So it's not really comparable to Youtube. Explanation/documentation is normal for that kind of site.

If you want the equivalent to Youtube, take a look at something like https://framatube.org/

[overcast]

The fact that there is an entire Medium article on how to "get started" essentially guarantees it's a non starter.

[devrand]

Or the lack of anyway to monetize your content other than link to a method for accepting donations.

[infogulch]

This feels like a guide for an early podcast player, the way you connect to different instances and their channels using urls. Kinda refreshing actually.

[agumonkey]

peertube worked fine the few times I tried it, it's not in my mind when I want to see videos but I have to say it never felt a disappointment.. pretty neat for such an effort

[MR4D]

My guess is that none of these things (including things like Mastadon) will become very popular. Then, one day, Amazon will create an AWS instance for it, and popularity will skyrocket.

And no, I’m not being sarcastic. I love the idea, but can’t for the life of me think what it will take to make something like this truly popular. (Though I wish I could!)

[elcomet]

I keep reading Mastadon in HN, but the real name is Mastodon. Where did you get "Mastadon" from ?

[eafkuor]

> I have a lot to say because I have a lot to think about.

Oh boy.

[DeadSuperHero]

Oof. I forgot my description said that.

Thanks for the dose of humility.

[Animats]

OK. So PeerTube doesn't actually host anything, right? You need a streaming server to publish. Maybe someone will let you have space and bandwidth on theirs. PeerTube is just the lookup system. Is that right?

[lucideer]

Nope.

Peertube is just the software. The linked has no lookup system, it's just a site telling you about the software, linking to sourcecode & documentation, and linking to other sites that host that software.

The primary instance references on the site (i.e. the streaming server that they embed their own videos from) is https://framatube.org/

[giancarlostoro]

It's using torrents through WebSockets, it would be nice if the regular torrent protocol supported them. You just need to download a torrent to stream, or be one of the peers viewing to stream it to other viewers.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube

[zaarn]

PeerTube is very exciting and I've been thinking about running an instance. Only showstopper for me atm is lack of live streaming support, which admittedly is difficult to figure out.

[HaHa31]

I honestly think that article 11 and 13 will grow more decentralized options. Peertube is only federated, so it won't benefit as much as it could, but it will still help. If the platform is responsible for copyright, then it will definitely be easier to just burn that server and then spin up a new one. Just my 2 cents

[zaarn]

Small platforms (ie business under 50 empl, or 10mil € ATO) don't have to adhere the copyright filter at all and are under the previous Notice&Takedown protection.

[ealhad]

“only” federated?

[browsercoin]

https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube

License is AGPL v3.0...

tldrlegal shows us this

https://tldrlegal.com/license/gnu-affero-general-public-lice...