344
YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe (www.dexerto.com)
submitted 22 hours ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
161 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 7 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

I wish PeerTube worked. For a while I tried just leaving in running on the theory that it might help out, but it didn't seem to do anything. Not sure if I'm doing it wrong?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] 7 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    I'm running a private, unfederated node; it works. I watch TILVIDS whenever I can find something on there.

    This is not an "if you build it, they will come" scenario,

    There's no monetization, so there are almost no content creators.

    Creators generally don't do it for free.

    Good creators rely on income from the videos to produce higher-quality videos

    Youtube: surfaces creators' videos pays creators hosts the videos handles CDN

    Peertube: The creator pays to host the video (largely against their ISP's wishes) There's no surfacing There's no payments If you're lucky peertube doesn't need CDN.

    Even if they go all patreon, they're still not getting that extra cash, surfacing, and free hosting that youtube does.

    We need some kind of FOSS Patreon and to have Peertube do some kind of partner/recommendation engine.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 8 hours ago* (1 child)

    I'm not shilling for LMG, but something like Floatplane would make sense. You pay per creator for their extra content and ad free viewing and the cut goes in favor to the creator. Of course Floatplane has to also make money. They're not in it to serve you ads or use your data to make money. If that took off I could easily see people paying 3-5 creators monthly to watch their videos ad free with extras on one platform.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago

    Nebula has more and is cheaper. I had some interest in Floatplane. Last time I looked at it, Youtube was cheaper for my use case and them not listing creators up front is bad news.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

    Same, dude. The power users will assume everyone has the time to assemble/learn the skill of setting it up. That being said, it’s on my list of things to figure out one day!

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 8 hours ago

    yeah, one of the responses lower down made me realize why PeerTube is unlikely to be a success any time soon - it's not something the typical YouTube user has to deal with.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 0 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    What did you want it to do?

    Did you set up a node? Did you promote it & grow a user base? Federate?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 4 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

    I wanted it to not be dog slow, because every one I tried spent all its time buffering. I’m not really sure how the architecture of it works but it seemed to suggest some kind of p2p thing so thought that leaving the window open might seed it? But either it didn’t or just nobody was interested.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 8 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 14 hours ago* (1 child)

    you are not seeding by just leaving the window open on any peertube page. you are only seeding the specific video you have opened, if you have opened one, and probably not the complete video just the last segments you still have cached. this p2p sharing is mostly for when a certain video gets popular, to help with peek load, and for live streams. if the video was buffering for a long time it's probably because the server did not have enough upload bandwidth, and no other viewer had the video segments.

    there is another load balancing system that peertube supports, they can clone videos fromneach other and help serving them: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin/following-instances#platforms-redundancy

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •