What keeps you away from PeerTube? What features does PeerTube lack? If you were the developer of PeerTube, how would you improve it?
What keeps you away from PeerTube? What features does PeerTube lack? If you were the developer of PeerTube, how would you improve it?
About a year ago I started trying to check out peertube to see if it was worthwhile for uploading my videos to. My first challenge was just finding instances to sign up on. Most of them didn’t allow registration. Then for the ones I did find, streaming videos was very slow and laggy. In some cases, I couldn’t even view videos. And then, it seemed that I could only search for videos that existed on that particular instance.
Like I said, this was a year ago so maybe it’s improved. But in general, it seemed totally unusable for someone just looking for a way to share videos.
I went looking the other day and had the exact same experience. They have an instance search on the main peertube website but even if you filter stuff out you still get results that don’t match e.g. filter for English only instances that allow content creation and you still get french and German instances or instances that don’t even let you register.
Mainstream websites require an email and a password. That’s it. No thinking. It’s done. A lot of the people on Lemmy are internet savvy or software engineers. Of course it’s easy for them. Johnny Offstreet wants to open the app store and have it done for them. Which is why, for better or worse, decentralized social media will never reach the moon.