How can I go from rando to content producer?
I feel so bad for peertube. Itβs such a great idea, but until it has a full platform wide search options, and regular content producers in areas OTHER than technology, it will never catch on.
Peertube vs Youtube in numbers: 21k / 2.7b
Yeah they need to improve quite a bit because the platform is harder to use in comparison to Lemmy and Mastodon.
Who needs to improve exactly? The PeerTube software or the instances hosting PeerTube?
I would say both as Peertube needs an app and instances need to remain up and running.
Letβs not forget about the fact that there need to be general purpose viewer instances that users can sign up to for watching content, because uh while accessing through Mastodon or Lemmy is a cool feature people want to be able to save Video lists and have watch history, things that donβt work at all or well when using a Link aggregator or a Microblogging service to access the content.
The bigger issue is monetization. YouTube is popular in no small part because creators are trying to make money.
Thereβs plenty of room for creators who donβt want monetization or can monetize things themselves by utilizing product placements (if the platform were popular enough).
The biggest problem is federation (or lack thereof). Iβve looked at A LOT of instances, and most of them either donβt federate at all, or only federate with a handful of other instances, as opposed to Lemmy or Mastodon that federate with thousands of othersβ¦
This means it is deeply segregated and discoverability is virtually nada, not to mention the default algorithms are completely useless and uneditable.
Thank you for the recommendation, itβs time to try out Peertube once again.
If this searches all of peertube, then it needs to be the default search on every peertube page.
The administrator can enable this on their instance. It is not enabled by default.
Iβve this enabled on my instance peertube.wtf