Peertube

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A free software to take back control of your videos

Peertube is an open, federated alternative to Youtube without advertising or tracking. On this site, you can find a good Peertube instance, with good rules, good moderation and most importantly a friendly community.

https://joinpeertube.org/

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Recommended instance to upload short videos (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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

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I want to upload some videos to Peertube to share here in Lemmy, but I'm not sure how to find an instance where I can upload them.

I don't want to be 'picky' since I know I'm using another person's hardware that costs money to maintain, but the majority of Peertube instances I had found the users can't upload videos at all, or have a ridiculous minimum of like 25 MBs per file... And I had found other instances where the user can upload anything he wants, but how do I know that instance will prevail? I mean I had accounts in multiple Peertube instances that after some time are unreachable, it literally gives you an nginx or 'page not found' error...

I know I can host it myself and that's the best option, but I don't have the knowledge or hardware to do it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Is your channel going to be on a particular theme or anything?

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

Have you looked through this list of instances?

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

Dumb question, how do I know if I can upload videos without registering each instance and what size limit do they allow?

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

Do you mean 'without browsing each instance'? The list I linked to previously wont be much help there.

Your best bet might be to use the 'Find a PeerTube platform' search. The link I included here is filtered for video-makers who are not interested in live streams and are looking for a minimum of 5GB of space. You can adjust the filters to your preferences and/or needs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

No dumb question here; I had the same bad experience and gave up on registering.