cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/5294605
Youtube, for so many years, was just too good. Yes, they changed the 5 star rating system to likes and dislikes and a few years later disabled dislikes altogether, but their algorithm mostly digs up interesting content and it just works for creators and viewers.
This might change soon. Their new strategy to disallow ad-blockers will frustrate a certain kind of viewer. Those who dislike surveillance and like open-source tech, those who use uBlock Origin and know why.
Just like a few years ago mastodon suddenly reached a certain kind of popularity, because twitter had their first big fuckup, maybe Peertube is next. It certainly is the most polished decentralized solution that doesn’t use a blockchain. Creators or fans could easily host their own videos, fans can watch it, without ads.
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What about bandwidth? Video is huge. Not everyone can handle P2P video.
YouTube ads might frustrate some viewers, but have you ever tried using peertube? I think videos just not working at all would frustrate viewers more than some ads.
Two tings it needs:
- Support for third party peering clients: if somebody wants to help out a server with bandwidth, currently the only option is to install peertube
- Monetisation: content creators need to get paid somehow. The only instance (I know of) that does so uses crypto and it’s https://beetoons.tv/
Maybe if content creators themselves decide to invest in peertube and/or its plugins to implement the parts that they need, then they’ll switch and peertube will suddenly become popular, but at the moment I just don’t see it.
The lack of ads is beneficial to viewers, but I also think it’s worth noting that a disproportionate amount of people creating videos are doing so to hopefully monetize it.
With the fediverse, that seems much more abstract and so I think there might also be a disconnect for some content to make its way over.
Some alternative youtube frontend are pretty good like freetube
