• pr06lefs@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10·
    12 days 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
      4·
      12 days 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
        2·
        12 days 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.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
    31·
    12 days ago

    I want the ability to have everything behind a login. I don’t want people not signed in watching videos and wasting bandwidth.

    • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      I mean I guess this would be an OK option. Disabled by default. IMHO this is the problem with YouTube lol

    • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      You can. You can set a video as “internal only”. So only users registered on the server, can watch it.

      • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        Yes but they won’t federate out which defeats the point of peertube.

        • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
          1·
          10 days ago

          True, but I wouldn’t want to have a wallen garden, like Instagram or Twitter, where it forces you to create a user.

          • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
            2·
            9 days ago

            It would be instance by instance policy. I think there are many cases where an instance should only be available to users behind a login while still federating with its network.

        • fu@libranet.de
          11·
          6 days ago

          @Fizz @meldrik in Free Software nothing ever “defeats the point” it just may not fit your particular use case. One of the advantages of Free Software is that it can be used by anyone for any reasons.

  • Rakenclaw@fedia.io
    6·
    12 days ago

    Maybe Librepay integration of some sort could help. Maybe that platform should be a little more ambitious and offer server operators and it’s users in the fediverse better pricing.

  • n2burns@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    12 days 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.

  • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    12 days ago

    I tried it, but gave up months ago. Decentralization is what we’re all about, but without a centralized index of what’s available, finding videos on PeerTube is more work than watching them is worth.

    • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      4·
      12 days ago

      There is an index maintained by Framasoft (devs of PeerTube), but it is something the servers need to enable. A lot don’t.

  • rosahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    5·
    12 days 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

  • mesamunefire@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    12 days ago

    Getting Lemmy(and other fedi services) to fully support linking videos would help. Piefed and and other platforms support it pretty well.

    for example: https://piefed.social/post/398574

    direct link vs just the url. Lemmy will not work with the direct link like this nor the comments appearing in both instances.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      12 days ago

      It used to work fine in Lemmy, but somewhere along the line it seems to have broken.

      • mesamunefire@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        12 days ago

        Yeah it’s been a little less than a year since it stopped working. I saw the GH issues, looks like the Lemmy devs took the position the Peertube devs need to fix…something with activityhub. I hope they fix things. Lemmy development vs the actual instances seem a bit more fragmented than the rest of the fediverse.

        I tried to take a look with my local Lemmy instance but it looks like the issue resides in how different Lemmy uses activityhub than other software. I don’t claim to know why they made the change but they seem to be the odd one out.

    • manicdave@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

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