I keep seeing this type stuff but neither peertube or friendica are genuine replacements at this point, mastodon is weaksauce compared to akkoma or a misskey fork, and loops is alpha software. also yes signal is centralized but it just works and has contact discovery so it owns matrix and xmpp when compared to whatsapp. basically none of this stuff is truly ready

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

As software, PeerTube is great and there’s actually plenty of content to consume if you can find it. The more content creators we can get to use PeerTube, the more appealing PeerTube will also become.

Check this link out, if looking for content: https://peertube.wtf/

[–] megrania@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

"If you can find it" ... that's the crucial point I suppose ... but without a discovery algorithm, interesting creators, and a VAST content archive, it can hardly be called an "alternative" for YouTube.

When I was looking into it I found the best use case was to use it as a self-hosted video archive to replace/extend my Vimeo. At least at that point, all instances that were remotely interesting were not taking any users, and the generic ones seemed to be very far away from what I'm doing content-wise.

And I guess as long as that's the case, and you have no ways to monetize content nor any significant reach due to the federated fragmentation, I don't think it's an interesting software/federated platform for creators ...

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Check this link out: https://lemmy.wtf/post/15816115 for servers and have a look at https://peertube.wtf/ for some of the content available on PeerTube.

If you are a content creator, you need to take the first step. Viewers will come after you, not before.

[–] megrania@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm running my own instance, and typically post my stuff on mastodon, so I guess I have made the first step?

It's a bit of a Catch-22 I suppose ... low numbers of viewers makes it less attractive for creators, and fewer interesting creators make it less attractive for viewers.

Taking into account the other aspects that make it less attractive for viewers (fragmentation and inconvenience ... having to dig through "Find the right instance for you" tutorials, no matter how well curated, can be a bit of a turn-off compared to just going to a central point and find what you're looking for), I don't have that much hope that it'll reach a critical mass of both viewers and creators to catapult Peertube into large-scale relevance ... as sad as I am about saying that.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 hours ago

Cool. What’s your instance?

And yes, it is a catch-22 or a “chicken before the egg” issue, but I’m confident we will see even more content creators on PeerTube in the future.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

matrix too has contact discovery, if you add your phone number (or email). most users don't, and that tells me something

[–] exhaust_fan@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

[Signal] has contact discovery so it owns matrix and xmpp when compared to whatsapp

Can you please elaborate? Idk what this means