PeerTube mobile app : discover videos while caring for your attention
PeerTube mobile app : discover videos while caring for your attention
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�...
Not available on f-droid yet 🥲
Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.framasoft.peertube
Edit: man, the user experience is uhhh... Not great :(
They released it too early. No account login, slow load times, unintuitive UI... Literally just a worse imitation of newpipe.
a small « support us » donation link in our website footer or even on one of the allowed platforms triggered a « nope » from Apple.
Christ. Caring about your rights and using Apple products is not compatible.
I don't think it has to be all-or-nothing when it comes to caring about your rights. I care about my rights, but might still have to deal with a Windows PC for select use cases.
I have friends who undoubtedly care about their rights and simultaneously own an iPhone. Does it make them a hypocrite? I don't think so. I think it means that "caring about your rights" is situationally, and generally, really difficult to put into practice in 2024 and not everyone can go full RMS and completely forgo all cell phone use on principle.
You can still install things on your Windows PC. Apple's control over their ecosystem is to a degree where you have no meaningful ownership over your hardware any more.
I think people don't need to be hypocritical, it's enough to be ignorant. But if you care enough not to be ignorant and you still tolerate it, you might have a problem walking the walk rather than just talking the talk.
Very exciting, great work dudes
And an iPhone app! :) https://apps.apple.com/us/app/peertube/id6737834858
Thank goodness. PeerTube needs wider adoption. We need creators as much as we need consumers.
Exactly, the onboarding experience needs to be super sleek and straightforward, you'll be surprised to know how many creators don't know how to configure their stuff, they usually ask their friends
If it's harder to use than Dailymotion, Odysee or Rumble, most people won't use it. Creators, certainly, won't consider it. The thing that made YT, Dailymotion, Vimeo, etc., big is that you didn't have to necessarily worry about the "hard stuff". You just shoot the video and push the upload button.
PeerTube needs more instances with the push-button option for creators to adopt the platform at first. The big challenge is, no matter what you do for compression or P2P or whatever-have-you, someone, somewhere, will have to pay for it. If it's not creators, it'll have to be either the viewers (not happening when the platforms listed above are free-to-watch), advertisers (not happening if the user base is too small and the content isn't brand-suited), or sponsors (not happening if the user base is small and made up of free/libre/pirate enthusiasts). That's part of the issue with PeerTube's adoption and I don't see a way to overcome it. We need an equivalent to mastodon.social or lemmy.world for the video side of the fediverse. Trust that creators and communities will break off, but have a canonical location with very few limits. Preferably you also would prefer that said canonical location doesn't defederate from anybody.
PeerTube is an excellent idea, but it never took off. Maybe PeerTube will see better days when Google can't pay for YouTube anymore.
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?
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.
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.
Honestly - both?
Good examples are going to be Floatplane and Nebula for the single-content-creator platform and the group of creators platforms.
There's no real reason you can't build a platform and require someone to pay you to have access, and it seems to have been successful for both groups.
Video hosting is expensive, but it 's not prohibitive and a group of creators could certainly come up with a useful platform and self-host it and still be profitable.
Now, the question is, of course, if peertube is the right choice for that and if it offers anything they'd need, but that's a different discussion.
I just dont see it happening at all. Youtube may be too big to fail unless its somehow broken off of google into a nonprofit or something. An alternative I would be happy with is us switching to the internet archive. But im sure im alone in that. I also think posting videos will soon cost money to upload rather than being spammed nonstop as data hosting costs skyrocket.
you're welcome to help improve the project
They are already helping by providing their feedback. It’s up to the existing team to address it.
The app is the least of peertubes problems, I just think the entire concept is the most complicated and obtuse fediverse we have. Its hard enough for normal people to use Lemmy or Mastodon but PT is a whole different animal. Maybe PT should stop trying to be its own standalone service and integrate better with what we already have.
Maybe Lemmy and Mastodon could use PT as a backend for videos uploaded to their instance that could be found via a Lemmy community or tags via Mastodon.
How do I "care for my attention"?
This project shouldn’t pretend to be better than it is. They are poisoning the well imo.
The UI works well. Can't get it to play videos on my Pixel 8 though.
Definitely will try again once it's on F-Droid proper.
Finally a peertube app that makes sense! Great news!
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.
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.
My apologies if thats actually someones artwork. Guess the style just has that look, unfortunately.
not prioritizing the ability to login (easy access to synced subscriptions) is wild to me
I was so surprised by this as well. I thought I just couldn't find the login at first. Well at least the feature is planned for next year.
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.
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.
doesn't work on me, i skip crap like that.