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Pixelfed introduces Loops, a Short-Form Video App (wedistribute.org)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Fediverse might be getting their own mashups of Tiktok, YouTube, and Vine sooner than anyone thought, thanks to the work of one prolific dev spearheading an effort. The best part? He's helping other projects in the space, too.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You mean PeerTube?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I would so much like to love peertube, but I have yet to find any instance that hosts the trash reevant to my interests. Mostly they either are filled with reuploads from YouTube, or are full of radicalized conspiracy theories (which I encounter very rarely on any other form of fediverse).

And then there is the "dumploads", which makes the instances seem like they only have one active contributor, as they dump like 60 videos right after another, resulting the frontpages to have just one note content. This, however, could be gixed by otion to group conecutive uploads as "[latest video] and [n] other videos from [user]", which would help to find more diverse content, as well as discourage dumping.

Then again, that is only my opinion, and if PeerTube is fine for others, who am I to complain. It just doesn't seem to be for me :/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

There are a handful of decent instances, but you really have to dig to find stuff, sadly. I run Spectra Video and basically have to curate sign-ups and which servers we follow.

It helps cut down on a lot of the crap, but it takes work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

With the cost of hosting videos and almost all instances not accepting registration. Peertube has zero chance to replace youtube. The best it could be is complementary to youtube

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Peertube actually uses some pretty nifty p2p tech (not quite BitTorrent iirc but same principle) to mitigate load from popularity spikes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What about how hard it is to have an account on any instance. Pwople can't even comment on video without an account

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Can't even? Where is it possible to comment without an account?

But not being able to create an account easily is a good point that speaks against the concept.

But I would guess there are instance still open for registration.