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What's Stopping you from using PeerTube? (piefed.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/peertube@lemmy.world
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Or 'What is PeerTube lacking that you simply cannot do without?'

I believe it's a safe assumption that fediverse users want to move away from the monopolies and closed gardens so often associated with video streaming, and yet it's not a task that's ever been made easy. Maybe an ounce of inspiration is the cue we need, and so my question to you is; What's Stopping you from using PeerTube?

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Lack of content for sure. There is no monetization or integration with donation platforms. I think it’s major driver for content creators to prefer YouTube. At some point I wanted to ask YouTube creator to consider Peertube but I realized I’ll be asking them to loose profit. They’d loose view on YouTube and get nothing in return.

There is also number of things which I hate in app.

Login and search are stupid in multiple ways:
  • Logged off - explore tab shows videos from multiple platforms. Logged on - only from one platform.
  • Logged off - platforms show vids from selected platform. Logged on - you can select platform but list of vids is empty.
  • On explore tab advanced search is “more filters” on platforms tab - it’s icon.
  • What is the difference between hot and trending
Other UX:
  • in explore, platform logos take 1/3 of phone screen. Generally a lot of wasted space and duplicated buttons, navigations
  • When filtering by language it’s not clear do I get untagged results or not
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