• manicdave@feddit.ukEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Admins are able to add external search engines. Most use sepia search and it pretty much covers all the non-sketchy stuff.

  • pr06lefs@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I really liked the livestream feature that was on reddit a few years ago. Would be cool to have a fediverse version of that, where people could casually stream from their phones with just a peertube app.

    • asudox@lemmy.asudox.devOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Yeah. We do have PeerTube Live, but it’s not official and integrated into the PeerTube app itself. It also can’t stream the screen of the phone, so there’s that.

      • pr06lefs@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Ok that’s pretty close! The reddit thing was about streaming your camera, and having a chat window where you could read comments from viewers.

        The other key element was having a place where viewers could see what was currently streaming. That allows people to casually go see “what’s on” without needing to coordinate with livestreamers to set up a time to watch, keep track of streamer channels, etc.

  • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 month ago

    So many things:

    • A closed caption system like youtube. I’m deaf so 90% of peertube videos are just unwatchable to me.
    • A working mobile app.
    • An easy guide to instances that is clear on which instances are mainly local vids and which basically federate with everything. Ideally, a couple, lemmy.world, lemm.ee style peertube instances that are general purpose and kind of have everything I can direct people who want to join too.
    • A non-personalised algorithm. Ie. recommend similar high rated videos.
    • wisely@feddit.orgEnglish
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      1 month ago

      You are probably already aware but YouTube’s closed captions are very inaccurate. I’m sure it’s better than nothing though.

      • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Yes it very much depends the video. But on slow paced standard english they tend to be okay, which is most the content I end up watching anyways.

  • fxomt@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Better federation. The vidiverse search is just bad, i want to watch all types of content from my account.

    And more general instances; i’m on spectra.video now, but as i said the vidiverse search sucks and it’s not federated to enough instances :/

      • fxomt@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Yeah :/ in some instances it is, but it’s usually broken.

        I especially wish i could actually interact with those videos from my account, such as liking or commenting. There are three types of instances: no sign ups, outdated or no content on them.

  • sith@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Better federation and search. Make it easier for content creators and instance runners to monetize. Make it easier to script your own feed/recommendations.

    All of the above is true for all software on the fediverse. But monetization especially for PeerTube. Pay to watch, donations and ads should all be options in the official implementation. Because of the high cost of running a large high bandwidth instance (if that wasn’t obvious).

    Seems like the only ones who really benefit from PeerTube right now are right-wing extremists. The only large Swedish instances are far-right. And they are big because of content supply and demand.

  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I tried to sign up for an account, I was going to use it to create long form content, so I picked some tags (which definitely leave out too many broad categories to be particularly useful, and is thus incredibly limiting) that seemed somewhat related to what I wanted to do.

    I then looked through the instance list based on those tags, and tried to find one that fit… and I couldn’t, because all of them had some caveat or blurb or whatever that made me go “nope, probably not here…”

    The problem is that I had to click through multiple pages to hit those caveats in the instance rules/description during the signup process, and I had to do it for every one I wanted to check out. They weren’t at all listed on the main page, and they probably should be, maybe under a popup tooltip sort of button. As it stands it was a huge waste of time, and I gave up, and lost interest in having a channel. Maybe I’ll browse it if it ever picks up, but frankly the process of signing up to be a content creator is far too onerous.

    Maybe that’s a problem with the instance owners and how they have things set up, maybe with the way the whole platform works, I don’t really know. It was pretty consistent though, so I assume it’s a platform problem.

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 month ago
    • Featured creators on homepage (by admin)
    • opt-out federation
    • discovery algorithm that doesn’t suggest 3 year old videos as “trending”
    • A mobile app that works
  • rosahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 month ago

    It’s mainly finding videos for me. I’ve been able to find a few interesting ones, but largely it’s either difficult to find, or not there at all. I myself have actually been considering making some videos to help the content drought, but then the ideas, or knowledge of what people could be receptive to doesn’t quite come.

    also as a newpipe user, being able to search all of my selected instances at once, or with sepiasearch could be nice, but thats not up to peertube

  • n2burns@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 month ago

    What keeps you away from PeerTube?

    The app not being on F-Droid. Once it’s there, I’ll at least try it out. Bonus if there’s an Android TV app too. I’ll watch stuff on PeerTube if I’m given a direct link, and I tried playing around with NewPipe but the experience feels bolted on to the rest of the app.