[aosaigh]

I think this is a good example of what separates HN users from normal users. The fact that the blog is on a completely different domain and using a different name is confusing. What's more, when you visit the Peertube domain it's not clear what you should do. Do I need to download something? What's an instance? How come the top video on the page brings me to a separate page?

I know these are things that most HN users are happy to dig into and figure out, but currently there's no way Peertube is "an alternative to video platforms" for even saavy web users, let alone regular users. Maybe that's OK though?

[laurentb]

not really, Framasoft is a French company that develops a collection of open source alternatives to popular software.

It's the same as if Microsoft was posting a blog on its own msdn.com domain for something related to visual studio or SharePoint

[igorkraw]

Small correction, it's a non-profit association that can be placed in the same cluster as Mozilla, the EFF, the CCC or the Linux Foundation (i.e., the good guys if you care about FOSS and an open software and internet world)

[dewey]

> It's the same as if Microsoft was posting a blog on its own msdn.com domain for something related to visual studio or SharePoint

Which underlines the point that the parent is making. Normal users are not the ones reading things related to SharePoint. Apple does their announcements on the apple.com domain and not on applnews.com.

> I think this is a good example of what separates HN users from normal users.

[detaro]

Normal users are also not the ones primarily expected to read release notes for release candidates for the Peertube server software. Sharepoint is arguably a good comparison: run by administrators for users - it's just that peertube is more interesting to nerds that are both in one (although I'm sure there's some folks with sharepoint at home...).

[ekianjo]

> Normal users are not the ones reading things related to SharePoint.

Normal users would never ever find this blog post in the first place. You are trying to fix a problem that does not exist.

[dtonon]

The "Read the blog post" link is placed in the first highlighted box of the project's homepage :)

[cameronh90]

> msdn.com

Doesn't exist any more. It's now all under microsoft.com (e.g. devblogs.microsoft.com).

[Zababa]

The way peertube is an alternative to youtube is not by end users understanding what it is, but by technical users hosting themselves the videos. For example, OCaml has a peertube instance to watch OCaml related content: https://watch.ocaml.org/. This is an alternative to watching the content on youtube.

[mshanu]

I think this is the challenge with all decentralised systems, its not as easy as you click some buttons and you get served like in web 2. Hope more focus will come on experience part of this, for such approaches to become popular