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PeerTube 6.2 is out! | JoinPeerTube (joinpeertube.org)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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PeerTube is a decentralized and federated alternative to YouTube. The goal of PeerTube is not to replace YouTube but to offer a viable alternative using the strength of ActivityPub and P2P protocols.

Being built on ActivityPub means PeerTube is able to be part of a bigger social network, the Fediverse (the Federated Universe). On the other hand, P2P technologies help PeerTube to solve the issue of money, inbound with all streaming platform : With PeerTube, you don't need to have a lot of bandwidth available on your server to host a PeerTube platform because all users (which didn't disable the feature) watching a video on PeerTube will be able to share this same video to other viewers.

If you are curious about PeerTube, I can't recommend you enough to check the official website to learn more about the project. If after that you want to try to use PeerTube as a content creator, you can try to find a platform available there to register or host yourself your own PeerTube platform on your own server.

The development of PeerTube is actually sponsored by Framasoft, a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, a group of friends convinced that an emancipating digital world is possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on real world and online with and for you!

Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events and Meetup.

If you want to contribute to PeerTube, feel free to:

report bugs and give your feedback on Github or on our forums

submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform

Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide

Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Awesome new features. All we need now is an app for Android and iOS.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Hi!

We're currently working on an "official" app! More information about what we're working on this year on the PT blog: https://joinpeertube.org/news/peertube-future-2024

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

That's great to hear! Looking forward to it :)

Also awesome to see you on Lemmy ;)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Newpipe works just fine for me(on android)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yea, but I’m on iOS. There’s some ad-riddled, fake version of NewPipe on iOS though…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Surely that's your choice though? I mean, if you want to use FOSS software, Android is the platform of choice, and, except for a few niche circumstances (which it's fine if you're one of, just say), people choose which phone they have.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I picked the lesser evil. Maybe side-loading will eventually actually be a thing on iOS. Only time will tell.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

I picked the lesser evil

The choice for iOS can be a convenient choice for daily use if one is ready to deal with the restrictions (Like every other web browser is a Safari browser layer instead of a real browser and the fact that Apple is not into allowing ad-blocking easily). With Android phones the freedom for the end user is, compared to iOS, massive. And having a de-Googled Android phone with a custom ROM is no longer rocket-science or for the faint of heart these days because you can buy custom ROM Android phones pre-installed so you're good to go.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

NewPipe works on peertube?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

yep, just add an instance in the settings, peertube subs integrate nicely with youtube subs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It doesn't have pip and higher quality options so I suggest you should try libretube

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Recently I found some peertube instances that had good quality content that was interesting to me and had more of a chance to test drive it than I have in the past. Very nice!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Care to share? Looking for something to poke around on to get started with it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Urbanists.video is what I'm binging now. As a child, I wanted to be a transportation engineer and as an adult I'm a frequent cyclist, so I find this stuff interesting. Plus, most of it is in English when many peertube instances are not.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

bruh... i just thought "man something like lemmy but for youtube would be great, maybe i can build one for fun" THIS MORNING. "decentralized and federated alternative to youtube" man this gonna be fkn great

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I should really look into peertube. With YouTube always breaking compatability with Newpipe and other apps, I'm tired of having to deal with YT's outages

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is there anything there besides a video about Linux with 5 views? Maybe some unique blogs? Or at least reposts of channels from YouTube? Maybe collections of music videos?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

If nobody use it you will not have contents on it, so encourage the more people to use it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I have a small list of noteworthy channels on PeerTube to follow: https://peertube.wtf/home, but tilvids.com is also a good start.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I think the problem with Peertube is the leadership. They treat it more like a hobby project. Peertube needs a dedicated foundation with a board. They could get funding and developers from world wide instead of France.