I know, the platform isn’t ready, the platform needs more creators, the platform has technical improvements to do…We could have said the same for Lemmy before the Reddit blackout, the same for Mastodon on Twitter.

The main limitation I see at the moment are PeerTube instances, badly communicating, from what I’ve been able to realize, and there are no reference instances as it was for Lemmy.

#viralhashtag

  • @hoodlem@hoodlem.me
    11•11 months ago

    I’ve been thinking a bit about this the past several weeks. Here’s how I think we can get useful content on Peertube, quickly:

    • Contact creators who make specifically non-monetized content and see if they are willing to post on Lemmy too. New content, and we could offer to post their existing content on Peertube for them
    • Early YouTube content. There was some scare a while back about YouTube videos older than three years being removed. Turned out to be a misunderstanding, but it reinforced that Google can remove old content whenever they want, for whatever reason they want.
    • Provide continual support (if necessary) for content creators who want to post on PeerTube. For instance, a creator may say “Sure, you can post what you want, just provide attribution. But you’re going to need to post it on there yourself.”

    Some things we don’t want to get into:

    • Ability for anyone to post. We’d have a moderation nightmare and we don’t have the resources to deal with it. Trolls posting garbage or CSAM. We need the Peertube instance intensely curated/moderated. -Re-posting content that is monetized on other platforms. We don’t have legal resources to deal with takedown complaints. We need explicit permission from creators for everything we upload.

    Those are the thoughts I’ve had. I think it leads to an instance with good, curated content. Limited in how it’s used, but I think that’s the best for now.

    • pragmakist
      5•11 months ago

      There’s a serious onboarding problem for people who do not yet have the skills to make worthwhile content here.

      • Jakob :lemmy:A
        2•11 months ago

        People who can create a yt-channel an upload videos there should be able to do the same on peertube… whats the problem?

        Ok…

        On youtube, your account is your channel. On Peertube, you can create more than one channel with your account.

        • pragmakist
          4•11 months ago

          Personally I find that the problem is that no one will let me in.

          (Or even respond to the request!)

          And sure, I can just start my own server and keep that up to date and running.

          I acknowledge that, but that’s just one more thing that gets in the way, and I have enough things to learn as it is.

          Also, sure, some of these sites must at some time have responded to requests, and some might still do so, it’s just a simple matter of trying again, right?

    • Jakob :lemmy:AEnglish
      4•11 months ago

      Do you know, you can follow a peertube-channel from lemmy? Just try it!