P2Play: https://gitlab.com/agosto182/p2play/

Newpipe

Thanks! There is a lot of work : ) 

Checking out your project now and its very cool. Keep up the good work.

I am considering applying for a grant to fund the development, but there may be complications, especially given that I am a Ukrainian citizen currently living in Ukraine. I am not yet sure what specific difficulties might arise.

Maybe contact framasoft, the creators of peertube. maybe they could help or even provide employment .

Therefore, as an alternative, I would consider fundraising directly from interested users and the community to support development. Since you mentioned fundraising, I would like to ask how you feel about having an option to financially support the project’s development

I recommend giving in a shot, while trying to use lemmy approach of having a good fundraising process with a pop up specifically . I actually tried to write a learning resource for funding open source so there is a lot to say about that. but you would still need a relatively large number of active users. Lemmy for example has around 37K monthly active users and earns around 3.6K a month. so around 10 active users per dollar. I looked at other fediverse platforms and i think it is one of the most effective fundraising processes when measured using active users per revenue ratio.

You could also just put ads in it and maybe a option to pay to remove them . openfront does this and still seems relatively popular. FOSS is nice but eating is better.

Would you personally consider becoming a financial contributor? If so, what monthly amount would you potentially be willing to contribute?

I am afraid i am not a very good case study. i am not really a peertube users and already spend a relatively large chunk of my time on FOSS so i don't want to invest in it too much.

Regarding your points about benchmarking the recommendation system and curator-based feeds, I am not entirely sure I understood what you meant. Could you please clarify?

Regarding elo ranking something like a page on the website where you are shown two pages with recommendations from two different recommendation systems and you would vote which page and system provided better recommendations . You could also just have one feed and see which recommendation system has a better viewed video to liked video ratio.

Regarding curation. some account invites a bunch of people to act as curators. then something like the most liked videos this group of people had in the last 24h or week get shown. something like that.

I don't know if I'd classify it as good, but it's usable. I don't really know of a PeerTube app that I would classify as being good at this point in time. One big thing the official mobile app is missing for me is background playback.

I mostly use tankie.tube, as there's large repositories of Marxist audiobooks. I use it for my basic Marxist-Leninist study guide when available.

The official Mobile App is good?

I can't give you any specific instances, but as for the client I use the PeerTube official mobile app

Thank you for your feedback.

At the moment, I am actively looking for income, as the financial situation and job market in my country are very difficult. I am trying to find ways to earn money. This project is something I genuinely enjoy working on and investing a lot of time in. It truly engages me. However, I have a significant issue: I do not have a stable income.

The hosting problem can be partially managed for now. At the early development stage, I can run the service on my own workstation. The more substantial and harder-to-solve issue is funding both my personal living expenses and the ongoing development of this project.

Hosting this service requires computational resources so that it can process and deliver information quickly. My current machine handles this reasonably well. However, renting an equivalent remote server with similar performance would be quite expensive. That is why hosting costs are not my top priority at the moment. My priority is earning money to sustain myself.

I would be interested in exploring fundraising specifically for the development of this project, because it requires a great deal of time and effort. I am considering applying for a grant to fund the development, but there may be complications, especially given that I am a Ukrainian citizen currently living in Ukraine. I am not yet sure what specific difficulties might arise. And, of course, there is no guarantee that I would receive such a grant.

Therefore, as an alternative, I would consider fundraising directly from interested users and the community to support development. Since you mentioned fundraising, I would like to ask how you feel about having an option to financially support the project’s development. Would you personally consider becoming a financial contributor? If so, what monthly amount would you potentially be willing to contribute?

Regarding your points about benchmarking the recommendation system and curator-based feeds, I am not entirely sure I understood what you meant. Could you please clarify?

If you are looking for free hosting, maybe checkout tuxfamily.

You could also put some links for donations (liberapay , open collective etc) and fundraise the money for better hosting outside of ukraine (and maybe some could go to ukraine government though taxation ). I saw a patreon but no mention that the donations could be used for better hosting which could motivate people.

If you don't want to deal with taxes, i think using some non profit could help with that (opencollective , Software Freedom Conservancy , spi etc ).

I would like to see some benchmarking of the recommendation system, maybe with a elo ranking like done for AI .

allowing feeds by teams of curators is an idea i would like to have explored (it could be benchmarked using surveys or elo).

This seems really good btw.

Great idea! Discovery/recommendation is an underappreciated part of one's media digest. YouTube was really good at it for a brief window, just like Google was actually good at being a search engine at one time. Thanks for your work; hopefully it leads to increased usage on PeerTube!

Cool - will check it out. Actually thought that these features were already part of the official https://peertube.tv/ website.

First, thank you. Peertube is by far the worst federated platform in terms of overall User Experience and desperately needs something like this. If it ever is going to take a chunk out of YouTube it needs to offer the ability to browse everything in one place and discover new videos and creators.

1. it needs a language filter
2. NSFW filter
3. filter for instances (to exclude one or more)
4. A filter for topics like the peertube app has

I would prioritize those in the order listed.

It's a cool idea, I think aggregation and discovery is really underrated for this stuff. The first thing I'm noticing is that most of the videos are in languages I don't speak and don't have English subtitles, so some way to filter by language would be helpful. The recommendation system seems to work, although there aren't many videos in the feed. There's lots of searchable content in the 'channels' tab, but no apparent way to subscribe to them or add to what content would be recommended, as the links just go to external instances.

This is pretty cool, glad to see work done on improving some aspects of peertube that are a little lacking

I find it really interesting, I have tried several times to use peertube and discovering videos between platforms is really difficult. Anyway, maybe doing it through a centralized platform is not the best way, maybe as an embeddable module in the frontend of the current instances or something like that.

Does anybody know of any channels on PeerTube around repairing vintage/broken/untested electronics? I've found Jan Beta, does anyone know of others? I'm thinking similar to Joey Does Tech, Alec's Log, and Northridge Fix on YouTube, where they buy lots of broken/untested laptops, CPUs, etc and repair them...

Linux Experiment, Gardiner Bryant, Veronica Explains are by g names who publish their videos on Peertube.

I’d want to find basketball and cars related creator on Peertube, but I dtill have to use Youtube for this. For tech stuff, Peertube is fine though. Once you look for something else, it starts being more complicated..

Most universities have data repositories for such material. I can see why uploading to PeerTube might be interesting in addition.

This is really cool, I could see this being used for mutual aid in the fediverse, as well as to give artists self hosted alternatives to patreon or kofi.