If you could improve PeerTube, what would you improve?

[asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev]

Cross-posted from "If you could improve PeerTube, what would you improve?" by @[email protected] in [email protected]

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What keeps you away from PeerTube? What features does PeerTube lack? If you were the developer of PeerTube, how would you improve it?

[hendrik@palaver.p3x.de]

I think it's mainly the content. We need some good content, creative people and interesting videos on the platform. Yeah and maybe discoverability. People also need to get those videos displayed/recommended to them. Other than that, a good app is always nice. That's already been worked on. But regarding the technology, I think Peertube works quite nicely these days. And it has a good amount of features as well.

[jqubed@lemmy.world]

The question is how to get the creators there. A lot of people are on YouTube because of the ad revenue, but with no ads on PeerTube there’s no revenue to share. A lot of other for-profit companies have tried to lure these creators away with little success, so I’m not sure how a non-profit service is supposed to attract people who have turned content creation into a career.

[fizz@lemmy.nz]

I want the ability to have everything behind a login. I don't want people not signed in watching videos and wasting bandwidth.

[solarpunker@slrpnk.net]

I think the only thing it needs is a mainstream instance.

[dougholland@lemmy.world]

I tried it, but gave up months ago. Decentralization is what we're all about, but without a centralized index of what's available, finding videos on PeerTube is more work than watching them is worth.

[povoq@slrpnk.net]

For long-form video creators a Patreon like subscription service might work, but I very much agree with you that this is the main issue. Peertube works fine from the technical side of things.

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

Search.

If I go to youtube, and I search for content, it's either there, or it's not.

If I go to peertube, I need to then exit the site, search on AN UNRELATED 3RD PARTY SITE, and then I can get results from more than the local instance.

If I go to an instance that's nothing but stamp collecting, the trending videos are going to be about stamp collecting. That doesn't mean all of peertube is talking about stamp collecting. I'm just on the wrong instance, and the site itself is fractured and borderline useless.

Now you can include a feature to tell peertube that you DO want to see trending, local only, as a stamp collector, on a stamp collecting instance, that would be really useful! But also, if I don't give a fuck about stamps, as mkst people don't, the default should be peertube wide trending across ALL instances. I mean, if I don't care about stamps I'm on the wrong instance to begin with, but that's besides the point.

I feel like peertube should be each instance is a different type of content. Want to watch guys go fishing? There's an instance just for that. With multiple different channels, each from different people, each covering different fishing topics. But your whole life isn't just one topic. So you go to a different instance, one for automobiles, and you follow the channels that post videos about your car. Then you go to a cooking instance, and find a channel that's just a guy showing you how to bake pies and cakes while running from the police.

Your searches, will 99% of the time not find the most relevant results if we seperate the content based on instance. So the search as is, is really limited and fragmented to have to go to another site, search, find the video, come back to peertube, log in, go to the video directly, and THEN subscribe to the content.

See how jarring that is, compared to youtube? Search, click, play/subscribe. All in 10 seconds.

[deadsuperhero@lemmy.world]

It would be nice if there was an easy and straightforward way for instances to create their own shared indexes. There's a feature for this in PeerTube, which I guess is supposed to act like instance following + a shared search catalogue. It would be handy to know how to easily make sort of the federation equivalent of a webring.

The devs are also working on a mobile app, which I think is something the platform is sorely missing.

[jagged_circle@feddit.nl]

More content. We need 100% of the Creative Commons videos on YouTube to be mirrored, to start

[fxomt@lemm.ee]

Better federation. The vidiverse search is just bad, i want to watch all types of content from my account.

And more general instances; i'm on spectra.video now, but as i said the vidiverse search sucks and it's not federated to enough instances

[mitm0@lemmy.world]

Some kind of Monetary-support system

[meldrik@lemmy.wtf]

Maybe Liberapay built-in? I’m sure a plugin could fix that.

[ulrich@feddit.org]

1. Most people who submit videos do it because they enjoy it, not to start a career (or at least it doesn't begin that way).
2. Most creators at this point have sponsor-spots in their videos. That's still monetization they control.
3. Donations are a thing. Both to Framasoft (Peertube developers) as well as direct to the creators themselves. This still makes up a large portion of creator income.
4. Personal sales. Lots of creators have their own products these days. Some of them are novel and others are high quality.
5. Affiliate links to product promotions.

Peertube makes it really easy to promote whatever you want in the "support" button.

So really the only thing they're missing out on is adsense. Which, fuck Google. And is only a small (but not insignificant) portion of their income.

[meldrik@lemmy.wtf]

We had vidcommons.org once, that hosted a lot of CC content. Unfortunately the owner couldn’t afford to keep it running.

If you now a source of CC videos, let me know.

[meldrik@lemmy.wtf]

There is an index maintained by Framasoft (devs of PeerTube), but it is something the servers need to enable. A lot don’t.

[ulrich@feddit.org]

https://sepiasearch.org/ is already integrated into the app.

[meldrik@lemmy.wtf]

What’s a mainstream instance?

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

That's cool and all, but I don't use an app, nor should I be expected to download software just to use a website. I use my browser.

[mitm0@lemmy.world]

I wish there was a libre one-time payment software