I understand your point. I suspect the main advantage the post isn’t making clear is that PeerTube doesn’t have the same ensnaring algorithm that YouTube does, so it doesn’t keep you endlessly watching the next video or at least suggesting another video to you.

I honestly find this a negative which is spread around carelessly as a positive. On Peertube I see zero content except linux. On Mastodon I can only either find that one star trek dude, linux and foss dudes, or libs complaining about politics. Lemmy is easier to find stuff but has very little content.

I’ve let go of all other google and social media formats but youtube has actually good content and honestly a good algorithm. I search for something I want or watch something from my youtube rss feed then it recommends what I want. I have ads and tracking blocked. I only get the content I want.

I can’t say the same for most of the fediverse honestly.

I think that’s kind of an advantage of a lot of fediverse alternatives is they’re comparatively “boring” in that they force you to be more intentional.

That’s honestly just showed me how pointless it all is…

the post is too much for me to read right now.

Huh?

Yeah I liked that too then they suddenly say they replaced it with Peertube… which doesn’t make anything sense to me.

Replacing YouTube with reading is a great idea but replacing YouTube with peertube still makes no sense. No tracking for .0000000001% of the content.

It makes their goals in this post unclear to me. Is it to degoogle or to devideo.

Typically?

I’ve never quite understood the appeal of ActivityPub.

Looking at the list of goals in the article, the only benefit in addition to what can easily be done with RSS is knowing who follows me. Maybe it’s just me, but if I’m writing to a blog or a microblog I just don’t really care who follows me or even who reads it.

There are more social features built into ActivityPub, likes and shares for example, but at that point I’m likely not running my own server and am trusting a third party to do it for me. The idea that there are multiple hosts I can choose to trust rather than one centralized one feels more like a principled argument than one based on real benefits of, for example, owning my own content or censorship resistance.

lol, the fascist ceo one?

Awesome! Thanks for sharing ;)

I think it’s moved to beta since last Fall. Thanks for sharing! Does it only interact with Mastodon?

That’s very helpful! Thank you for taking the time to explain

I’ve only run docker containers with their own db. It sounds more logical to run one db, right? My only concern would be if that db corrupts then they all do.

Why do you like that over postgresql

I mean server side.

Oh that’s very nice! Do you use that db for other services too?

Thanks! Do you know if that is true for the two lemmy alternatives?

What other examples? :)

That I’m not a reactionary. You are right!

I like paid cloud or sync features for apps that you can do it yourself as well. Like Zotero or some writing apps

Never had a bad interaction with them.

How? Is someone tripping over that stick any different than another stick…? Isn’t it making the space more safe

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. That’s the only video example I could think of too

Well written article. I wonder how common cross posting your content is for Mastoton and Bluesky? Or peertube and YouTube? I chose Mastodon because I believe in activityhub and YouTube because it actually has people. Would someone prefer mastodon but also share to bluesky?

I find it kind of goofy that they quote their own toots. Feels like tooting their own horn. Just say it, don’t need to quote it.