What keeps you away from PeerTube? What features does PeerTube lack? If you were the developer of PeerTube, how would you improve it?
What keeps you away from PeerTube? What features does PeerTube lack? If you were the developer of PeerTube, how would you improve it?
About a year ago I started trying to check out peertube to see if it was worthwhile for uploading my videos to. My first challenge was just finding instances to sign up on. Most of them didn’t allow registration. Then for the ones I did find, streaming videos was very slow and laggy. In some cases, I couldn’t even view videos. And then, it seemed that I could only search for videos that existed on that particular instance.
Like I said, this was a year ago so maybe it’s improved. But in general, it seemed totally unusable for someone just looking for a way to share videos.
As a user, I feel this pain. The defenders of how “easy” it is to join federated services, it really isn’t. There’s choice paralysis as well as waiting for registration and verification. It’s not smooth at all. Take a stop watch and set up a YouTube account, upload a video of a cat’s butt, and it’s like 2 minutes.
As a person who rolled out my own servers, I understand the barriers. I don’t have registration because my $5/month server can’t handle it, performance-wise or spammers. Even uploading things on my server is slow.
Hard problem to solve tbh and I don’t have a solution
yeah for some reason you have to type some sentence for most, better off suggesting something like kbin.earth where you only check a box. But I actually have no idea if you can login with that to lemmy apps or if it just works on their site?
I went looking the other day and had the exact same experience. They have an instance search on the main peertube website but even if you filter stuff out you still get results that don’t match e.g. filter for English only instances that allow content creation and you still get french and German instances or instances that don’t even let you register.
Mainstream websites require an email and a password. That’s it. No thinking. It’s done. A lot of the people on Lemmy are internet savvy or software engineers. Of course it’s easy for them. Johnny Offstreet wants to open the app store and have it done for them. Which is why, for better or worse, decentralized social media will never reach the moon.
I’m pretty sure that part of the reason Reddit took off was that it didn’t even require an email address at a time where most sites did require one to create an account.