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I’ve spent the last year every weekend creating a 2.5 hour block of tailored programming to recreate the experience of Saturday morning cartoons for my kid, with selections from ~60 of the best (and some bad) cartoons from the last several decades, animated music videos, unearthed funny old clips, and modern indie animations, often with seasonal themes.

My programming is (I think) objectively better than the Saturday morning block ever was, and it takes hours every week to gather clips, edit, and manage where we’re at with every show. I sometimes wish I could share it with a larger crowd. Do you know of a PeerTube instance that would be cool with hosting this kind of content? I've tried sharing this with friends and family via SyncThing, but they didn't like it and it was a pain to help them troubleshoot all the time. It would be nice to have a platform for this work, even though I know it's all mostly untenable from an IP standpoint.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I've never used it myself, but I've heard good things about ErsatzTV for this exact purpose.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

That looks promising! Going to try

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Retroshare might be a good way to share it with specific family and friends.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Upvote for visibility. I’d subscribe to this channel

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've kept copies of all my editing work in OpenShot for the past year or so and it's all pretty evergreen, so it would be pretty trivial to start consistently pumping out sequentially coherent broadcasts as soon as I've got a platform.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Also great username my friend.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks, I sent them an account request fully stating my intentions for them to consider. I'll circle back with a link if this gets off the ground!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wouldn't jellyfin or Plex work better for this kind of content rather then PeerTube?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Good note. I didn't think Jellyfin would allow you to broadcast to strangers, which is the (admittedly piratical) idea here. I would also prefer to remain anonymous to avoid any legal entanglements, so that would be a consideration if I went that route.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

If those are your concerns then maybe jellyfin and Plex aren't the right fit.

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

I think torrents would be the way to go.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I could do that too, but it wouldn't be a viable way to put this in front of family and friends who are a bit dense around anything attached to a keyboard.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You could start an Owncast server and broadcast it there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Looking into it!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Makertube is a good one. It has a lot of family friendly content as well.

https://makertube.net/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That does look like it'd be worth a look for its own sake, but their TOS forbids the kind of content I'd be posting.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Have you thought of perhaps hosting your own? If you are concerned about it.

Yunohost has a pretty easy install of peertube. It works pretty well and you can even make videos private for your own family uses if need arises. Gl!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I'll look into that. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If you’re putting pirated content on peertube you’re putting that server in danger. What is your goal? Just put it on some trackers.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

That's what I was worried about, which is why I first searched and then asked around for a PeerTube instance focused on anonymous pirated content (never know your luck). I'm not here to get anyone into trouble they aren't asking for.

My ultimate dream would be to run a live broadcast like Schrab Home Video where everyone can watch together concurrently. I know that some people on Twitch play old cartoons (e.g. Puppet Jared's Cartoon Dumpster) and I'm not sure how he gets away with it - and I wouldn't really want to become a janky mocap virtual beggar if that's what it takes.

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

I don't think this is really true as long as they're complying with the DMCA. OP can upload stuff, it'll stay up until someone notices and cares enough to send a takedown notice, and then the server host will take it down. In theory OP might be liable if they really wanted to push it, which maybe makes it not the best idea, but I think the server operator is in the clear as long as they take stuff down if it does get requested to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would definitely be interested in your work! Please let me know if it becomes viewable somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I'll update everyone if it gets off the ground!