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by ndriscoll 29 days ago
> Users have become used to having quick and easy access to a lake of content. When I go to PeerTube's website, I should see content first,

Peertube's website is not for consumers. It is for publishers. They're quite clear about that when they advertise that you can run your own platform. Again, you are basically complaining that nginx.org doesn't list some cool websites to get started browsing the WWW (except peertube even goes so far as to actually even point to a couple instances).

It's not a regression if your goal is not "create content"/"find and consume content". Like if you actually have interests, and e.g. are a Blender user, and you already visit blender.org for news about the Blender project, then it makes sense that they might say "here are some videos about our project". And of course they offer RSS so you can use your preferred subscription software.

> if I'm a creator, I want a guarantee that my content isn't going to suddenly disappear.

Then install peertube and post your videos? This is what various organizations that don't want their information to disappear like Debian or Blender have done.

> shit UX, including the legwork you have to do first to know wtf episcodon.net even is.

So your criticism is that it's not literally the current monopoly that everyone already knows.

What do you even mean "join you there"? Sharing a peertube video is the same as sharing a youtube video: you select the address, copy, and paste into a message. There's no commitment. You either just... click a link and watch a video, or if you also want to post, you put in your email/password to sign up. I have hundreds of saved logins in my browser, including Google/youtube (who are more onerous and require e.g. a phone number to sign up, or back in the day, required an invite). Peertube is somehow uniquely shit for... not literally being Google?

Is there an actual criticism here that isn't "videos aren't literally recommended on youtube and I'm not literally already logged in via youtube and subscriptions aren't literally managed within youtube"?

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