Remember, federation is copying, not creating some kind of remote view.
Is this true? It's my understanding that, lemmy for example, has the protocol in place for servers to communicate their content with each other, but each server's content is hosted separately.
Are you saying all federated services copy each other's data instead of only linking to it?
No, I don't think it's anywhere near that bad.
I just think that going forward, Peertube developers and instance owners should make the platform more accessible and interconnected.
It's a bigger responsibility to actually host content instead of just links to content, which I don't think most peertube instance owners can handle.
Yes. Having the OPTION is great.
Absolutely. I think there should be sane defaults, and whoever deviates from them should know why they're doing it.
Couldn't imagine a piracy community on reddit feeling good about its future.
Reddit will literally change its rules to get rid of communities it doesn't like. They did it with DarkNetMarkets.
That's fine. That's how federation works.
The problem is that the different peertube instances are defederated BY DEFAULT so it's exceptionally rare to find ones that can share with each other.
The censorship crowd needs to stay far, far away from peertube if there is ever any chance of it being successful.
I completely agree.
Normally, you wouldn't have to do this. The problem is that Peertube devs made the HORRIBLE decision to make federating "opt-in" only. This means most content isn't available on most instances. It's a snowball effect where most owners make the decision without thinking to have some mystical barrier to enter their esteemed federation.
They don't understand that most users don't give a shit about "proving" themselves to enter some random person's instance. (and rightfully so)
Peertube made a lot of good choices, but a lot of bad ones too by the censorship/walled garden crowd.
Hopefully someone with more resources than me can run an instance that fills this void: just let people upload and interact like youtube back in the early 2000s.
The frontend is nice, I actually enjoy it. Lots of functionality and fairly easy to navigate.
The problem is the culture around peertube instance: most owners are copying each other by not federating or allowing users to easily upload videos.
Essentially, most of the admins are afraid to actually host a video platform so they do anything in their power to prevent others from using it.
There are no great instances because all federation is opt-in.
There's also no general, standard "Peertube affiliated" instance that tries to federate with as many others as possible.
I think there were just some very poor design decisions made for the platform by people who don't know what they're doing.
Ex: Blurring sensitive videos blurs the title as well, without the option to change it.
The community doesn't help because most instances have "request an account" nonsense or literally don't allow users to upload videos.
I re-iterate my previous comment: "most instances are just places where the owner can jerk themselves off for excluding everything."
There will be great peertube instances, but the culture needs to change first.
That said, check out https://dalek.zone/. It's one of the few peertube instances I've come across that legitimately seems interested in making it a viable platform. Registrations and uploading new videos don't require approval, and it federates with way more instances than average.
Both.
Peertube made this asinine decision to make federating opt-in, so most instances are just places where the owner can jerk themselves off for excluding everything.
I'm actually referring to both. Instance owners are afraid to allow users to host content and they're afraid to link to servers that host content.