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  • I feel like people mistake YouTube for a video hosting solution.

    But that’s not the point.

    • YouTube a huge archive of content that accumulated over the past 17 years.
    • YouTube is a content suggestion machine. Discoverability is a key aspect.
    • YouTube sets an incentive by allowing people to monetize their content.

    So, if the only thing you’re looking for is a video hosting solution, then, yes, PeerTube might be an alternative. In the same way uploading videos to your own webspace would be, and Vimeo also still exists.

    But for all the other stuff, YT is, unfortunately, unmatched, and probably will be for a while …



  • For whatever reason, many of the editors mentioned here never worked for me … like OpenShot, ShotCut or PiTiVi were really unstable the last time I tried (might be a distro or DE thing). Also I found it hard to cut precisely when they worked. Lightworks, Da Vinci, Cinelerra, I had a hard time getting them to run. Maybe that changed in the meantime.

    I ultimately stuck with Kdenlive, which is stable enough and allows for reasonably precise cutting.














  • Yes, and not just that … like, making sure to keep the cursor away from the images all the time because hovering over an image immediately plays some trailer including audio.

    Generally, playing media elements without explicit triggers by the user is annoying, but this is the worst.

    Like, who thought this was a good idea?









  • I think it will … if I look at my own use-cases for sites like this, it’s connecting with people over shared interests (rather than instances) or scrolling memes. I don’t see how any of these use cases benefit from federation (from the user perspective). The looming threat of information disappearing due to defederation, the confusion about instances, etc … that’s off-putting even to tech-savvy users.

    Also ultimately I find it questionable from a philosophical perspective. Why should it matter which instance is your “home” instance, unless that’s specifically the way of interaction you’re looking for?

    Again, for me it’s interests over instances, and I think the federation aspect is just an additional layer that doesn’t add any value.