Sadly I dont think i could make one but ive seen peertube and its a bit off feeling( i cant place why) but thought hey maybe those who can make something like that will see the post. (Also I would love to scare youtube with competition cause they freaking need it)
Ill start I NEED to be able to play audio on a Mobile device when the screen is turned off youtube makes you pay for that 1 line of freaking code! Heckin BS
I need content and discoverability of content. PeerTube’s not really great in that regard.
If you happen to be on Android you should give NewPipe a try. It is an alternative client for YouTube and PeerTube as well. It supports managing playlists without login, downloads and background playback.
On iOS there’s Yattee and you can use Piped on a browser or as a PWA.
Libretube as well
Not being overrun with guys in sunglasses telling me the Jews and Gays are hiding the flat earth from me would be a good start.
I run a PeerTube instance and the amount of people that try following my instance with exactly THAT type of content is… astonishing. It just seems like no PeerTube instance is properly moderated.
There are (from my subscriptions):
If you want to play YouTube in the background on iPhone check out vinegar.
Or the Brave browser will let you! And Picture in Picture!
Ad block is too vital sadly and having an ad blocker now is tricky
You can have it with Firefox on iPhone.
can it even be done?
Oh definitely, just need a site that collects different video communities from the fediverse and throws them infront of an audience, if there was a special site that helped creators get set up it would go faster too
I think the big challenge is the recommendation engine. If a service ever got popular enough to have a large set of videos there would be a need to discover them.
I’d probably post quite a bit of content (music, etc) on a youtube alternative if I could expect it to not be copyright-striked. (and if anyone would watch it. The current PeerTube instances seem very barren.)
You would absolutely get DMCA takedowns. YouTube’s system is designed to allow copyrighted content without getting it completely removed.
Sadly no video platform will ever stand up to yt without creators. Odysee is the closest and thats only because youtube bans decenting opinion about topics
Youtube has pissed off their users something fierce for the last 5+ years (particularly smaller channels) and im honestly waiting for youtube to do something stupid next that rips apart their company like reddit and Twitter.
The problem is that no one can compete with YouTube. YouTube offers free 8k video hosting for everyone. And you have a relatively small number of ads. It’s basically impossible for any other video hosting service to provide this all for free.
