Today, at Framasoft (bonjour!), we publish the very first version of the PeerTube Mobile app for android and iOS. A lot of care went into its conception, to help a wider audience watch videos and discover platforms, while not getting their attention (and data) exploited. 🎈Framasoft is 20 years old🎈 : Contribute to finance a...
  • krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    They released it too early. No account login, slow load times, unintuitive UI… Literally just a worse imitation of newpipe.

  • asudox@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    PeerTube is an excellent idea, but it never took off. Maybe PeerTube will see better days when Google can’t pay for YouTube anymore.

    • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      9·
      2 days ago

      You honestly think a massive corporation that can’t afford the costs of its own operation could be replaced by a couple of scrappy individuals who absolutely, definitely cannot afford the costs of its own operation?

          • asudox@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            4·
            2 days ago

            Maybe PeerTube will see better days when Google can’t pay for YouTube anymore.

            I don’t see how I implied a hope for PeerTube to replace YouTube.

            I simply said that PeerTube might see better days when Google can’t pay for YouTube anymore, as in PeerTube might get some popularity after that.

            It challenges even the multi billionaire tech companies to host something like YouTube at similar scale. I don’t think anyone that knows how big YouTube actually is would think that.

  • jaxiiruff@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    This app makes no sense as someone who has no idea how peertube is supposed to work. I think peertube will never take off unfortunately because no one is gonna host quality instances. Videos are just too expensive.

    Are content creators we already know expected to start their own servers? Or will there be a general mega instance for everyone to post to. Not to mention the fact no ones going to get paid for all of this effort except maybe the instance getting donations.

  • Infomatics90@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    so is peertube like open source youtube? looking at the videos its the same cringy youtube thumbnails. id like just regular videos not stupid yellow text with an arrow pointing to the subject like im a fucking 3 year old toddler.

    • 4Robato@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      I think this happens because everyone does this in youtube and by habit people do it on other platforms.

      But at the same time, clickbait works and that’s the problem basically. If a clickbait tittle gives you more views and you want to be relevant doing clickbait tittles will help to get to that goal.

      Hopefully with time and less algorithms promoting this behavior we will have less clickbait stuff but I don’t think it will never disappear, specially when there’s a big industry behind.

  • TheRealCharlesEames@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    Ok, I’ve been anxiously waiting for an easy way to incorporate PeerTube into my Apple centric entertainment stack. Unfortunately, this app doesn’t do it for me — the design is confusing and not prioritizing the ability to login (easy access to synced subscriptions) is wild to me. Also not sure why there isn’t an Apple TV app yet. Beyond that, the frequent use of AI generated marketing photos for PeerTube is creating another bad taste in my mouth. In summary, I’m more pessimistic about this project than I was a couple months ago.

    • underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Have they been using AI art? All of their art that I’ve noticed has been from David Revoy.

      And it’s a fairly small open source project that only started working on the phone app last year. It’s not that surprising they haven’t gotten apps for every platform yet.