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PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance

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I've been working to get more involved with, eg, mutual aid groups and other forms of local capacity and resiliency building over the last year - one thing that's stuck out to me is how many of these groups' public face is an Instagram site. That might not have been existential a couple years ago, but given what we're seeing now with, for instance, Paramount making a rival bid for Warner based solely on their coziness with the current administration, it doesn't feel like the corporate media ecosystem is going to be an even "squint and you can kind of pretend" neutral territory for organizing and information dissemination going forward.

For all that tools like PeerTube, Mastodon, etc are clunkier and more limited than things like YouTube, Bluesky, etc, I think that argument is increasingly going to be irrelevant to their value - we need to start ensuring our capacity to go from 0-1 on media distribution, not from 10-100 or 100+.

2 months agoby roughly

https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/

https://framagit.org/framasoft/peertube/

https://joinpeertube.org/

2 months agoby toomuchtodo

peertube is in that weird space where the software is good technically but is overkill for home users and small entities[1] and moderation, bandwith and storage cost makes it a bit difficult and expensive to host large public shared instances unless you find a way to monetize it.

I guess it is more an alternative for Microsoft Stream than youtube really as it is more likely to be used as an internal video communication platform for a company than a public video streaming platform.

[1] if the audience is small, you are just fine sharing vids using the html video tags

2 months agoby prmoustache

Content discovery on it is still difficult, mostly because of the bizarre decision to make federation whitelist based.

I'm also sceptical that activitypub is a good fit for video, IPFS could be a better solution.

It's a shame the US government killed LBRY.

2 months agoby RobotToaster

Can someone please tldr me what digital public goods alliance means and how peertube can benefit from being recognized as a digital public good.

From what I can tell, it is UN affiliated/related project where basically it tries to make countries integrate these digital public goods in their country's ecosystem/ work on these (products?)

Is there any amount of sponsorship money that come with this classification or more tax benefits?

Or does UN (thus countries who fund UN) itself fund DPGA?

I find this idea fascinating now thinking about it if that can be the case, for these countries a few millions or even billions collectively might not mean much but it can mean a lot towards open source and digital soveriegnity in my opinion too.

2 months agoby Imustaskforhelp

Yeay, checkout my instance, been running it for 5 years now! https://video.benetou.fr

2 months agoby utopiah

I've been wondering about angles to get interesting content on there. I wonder, for instance, if one could reach out to a bunch of bands and get permission for mirroring live show recordings on peertube and be off to the races.

2 months agoby glenstein

Anyone wanna share some cool channels?

2 months agoby ekjhgkejhgk

I've been using: https://github.com/graham-walker/youtube-dl-react-viewer with yt-dlp to create complete archives of channels I like because I have so many channels I learn from I don't want YT to randomly disappear them. Mostly language, but loads of deep ML long plays and other things.

I'm looking forward to trying out PeerTube.

Start archiving now, the internet is rapidly getting user hostile.

Drives are cheap, data is expensive.

1 month agoby anarticle