What if we started uploading YT videos to PeerTube?
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Two things to consider:
- It's likely illegal to take other people's content and re-publish it on your own terms
- Peertube admins have to pay for storage. So don't dump random noise there. It has to be useful / worth it. Especially if you make someone else pay for the server space.
storage issues are very real, if op wants to do this they really need to do it on their own instance
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Obviously excluding videos whose authors explicitly do not want to, or copyrighted content that could create problems for individual instances.
By doing this PeerTube could become a kind of youtube database of quality content, excluding shorts and toxic/futile videos.
What do you think of this approach? Could it make PT more attractive, or would it create problems for the platform?I'm sure many creators would do it themselves but don't have time, or many would do it but don't even know about the existence of the Fediverse. Perhaps you could start by making “fan channels,” with all the most important and significant videos on a youtube channel (so without having to stay up-to-date on recent releases).
I used to see people do this here and there but they got bored after a few months because nobody watched the content. If you could get a bot to do this, I could see this being a longer term project, but if it gets big enough some folks might object as well.
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it's probably that they're not willing to put in the effort to republish every video on peertube when the status quo works fine, or that they don't know about peertube's existence.
Louis Rossmann for example definitely cares about FOSS/Free ecosystems is a giant proponent of ad blockers, but doesn't post on peertube.
Most peertube instances auto duplicate your YouTube channel for you.
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Obviously excluding videos whose authors explicitly do not want to, or copyrighted content that could create problems for individual instances.
By doing this PeerTube could become a kind of youtube database of quality content, excluding shorts and toxic/futile videos.
What do you think of this approach? Could it make PT more attractive, or would it create problems for the platform?I'm sure many creators would do it themselves but don't have time, or many would do it but don't even know about the existence of the Fediverse. Perhaps you could start by making “fan channels,” with all the most important and significant videos on a youtube channel (so without having to stay up-to-date on recent releases).
If you have the rights or it's cc then that's fine.
If you don't make sure you have permission from the creators or rights holders.
Feel free to post to: [email protected] if/when you do!
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Most peertube instances auto duplicate your YouTube channel for you.
oh interesting, I doubt most youtubers know about it though, it should be promoted as much as peertube itself imo
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I partially agree but could this actually not be a problem? Users who watch them on YT will still continue to do so, and instead people who prefer to use FreeTube/NewPipe or alternatives will still continue not actively supporting creators on YT but instead spreading their videos elsewhere. Right now the prediction of PeerTube taking views away from YT is quite utopian for most people.
No it couldn't not be a problem. That's their decision to make, not yours or anyone else's.
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If you have the rights or it's cc then that's fine.
If you don't make sure you have permission from the creators or rights holders.
Feel free to post to: [email protected] if/when you do!
And the permission of the peertube admins. A single channel on YouTube can easily be over a TB. Just casually dumping a TB or two of storage onto their wallets is going to cause them to notice.
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And the permission of the peertube admins. A single channel on YouTube can easily be over a TB. Just casually dumping a TB or two of storage onto their wallets is going to cause them to notice.
Admins have the ability to add upper limits to user uploads. I set mine to 100gb but it's a family instance.
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Obviously excluding videos whose authors explicitly do not want to, or copyrighted content that could create problems for individual instances.
By doing this PeerTube could become a kind of youtube database of quality content, excluding shorts and toxic/futile videos.
What do you think of this approach? Could it make PT more attractive, or would it create problems for the platform?I'm sure many creators would do it themselves but don't have time, or many would do it but don't even know about the existence of the Fediverse. Perhaps you could start by making “fan channels,” with all the most important and significant videos on a youtube channel (so without having to stay up-to-date on recent releases).
PeerTube can't store all videos. Only Youtube can handle the storage cost by using ads due to the massive amount of users.
But you could still have a list of links etc. for videos. Maybe stream directly the video youtube but never be on the youtube site. This might already exist in form of FreeTube. It only misses the possibility to view PeerTube vides as well. -
PeerTube can't store all videos. Only Youtube can handle the storage cost by using ads due to the massive amount of users.
But you could still have a list of links etc. for videos. Maybe stream directly the video youtube but never be on the youtube site. This might already exist in form of FreeTube. It only misses the possibility to view PeerTube vides as well.With enough PeerTube servers, it might be possible
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With enough PeerTube servers, it might be possible
Maybe with different servers. But then you need a good aggregation tool and seamless experience shifting between them.
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Maybe with different servers. But then you need a good aggregation tool and seamless experience shifting between them.
They just need to be federated and all content from all of them is available on each server.
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