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PeerTube mobile app : discover videos while caring for your attention

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  • a small « support us » donation link in our website footer or even on one of the allowed platforms triggered a « nope » from Apple.

    Christ. Caring about your rights and using Apple products is not compatible.

    • I don't think it has to be all-or-nothing when it comes to caring about your rights. I care about my rights, but might still have to deal with a Windows PC for select use cases.

      I have friends who undoubtedly care about their rights and simultaneously own an iPhone. Does it make them a hypocrite? I don't think so. I think it means that "caring about your rights" is situationally, and generally, really difficult to put into practice in 2024 and not everyone can go full RMS and completely forgo all cell phone use on principle.

      • You can still install things on your Windows PC. Apple's control over their ecosystem is to a degree where you have no meaningful ownership over your hardware any more.

        I think people don't need to be hypocritical, it's enough to be ignorant. But if you care enough not to be ignorant and you still tolerate it, you might have a problem walking the walk rather than just talking the talk.

  • Thank goodness. PeerTube needs wider adoption. We need creators as much as we need consumers.

      • If it's harder to use than Dailymotion, Odysee or Rumble, most people won't use it. Creators, certainly, won't consider it. The thing that made YT, Dailymotion, Vimeo, etc., big is that you didn't have to necessarily worry about the "hard stuff". You just shoot the video and push the upload button.

        PeerTube needs more instances with the push-button option for creators to adopt the platform at first. The big challenge is, no matter what you do for compression or P2P or whatever-have-you, someone, somewhere, will have to pay for it. If it's not creators, it'll have to be either the viewers (not happening when the platforms listed above are free-to-watch), advertisers (not happening if the user base is too small and the content isn't brand-suited), or sponsors (not happening if the user base is small and made up of free/libre/pirate enthusiasts). That's part of the issue with PeerTube's adoption and I don't see a way to overcome it. We need an equivalent to mastodon.social or lemmy.world for the video side of the fediverse. Trust that creators and communities will break off, but have a canonical location with very few limits. Preferably you also would prefer that said canonical location doesn't defederate from anybody.

  • PeerTube is an excellent idea, but it never took off. Maybe PeerTube will see better days when Google can't pay for YouTube anymore.

    • You honestly think a massive corporation that can't afford the costs of its own operation could be replaced by a couple of scrappy individuals who absolutely, definitely cannot afford the costs of its own operation?

  • They released it too early. No account login, slow load times, unintuitive UI... Literally just a worse imitation of newpipe.

  • Ok, I’ve been anxiously waiting for an easy way to incorporate PeerTube into my Apple centric entertainment stack. Unfortunately, this app doesn’t do it for me — the design is confusing and not prioritizing the ability to login (easy access to synced subscriptions) is wild to me. Also not sure why there isn’t an Apple TV app yet. Beyond that, the frequent use of AI generated marketing photos for PeerTube is creating another bad taste in my mouth. In summary, I’m more pessimistic about this project than I was a couple months ago.

    • Have they been using AI art? All of their art that I've noticed has been from David Revoy.

      And it's a fairly small open source project that only started working on the phone app last year. It's not that surprising they haven't gotten apps for every platform yet.

    • not prioritizing the ability to login (easy access to synced subscriptions) is wild to me

      I was so surprised by this as well. I thought I just couldn't find the login at first. Well at least the feature is planned for next year.

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