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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

for me the missing apps are not a problem: The website works perfectly in a mobile browser, even for administrating an instance.
I made one because I didn't want a youtube account anymore but a space to upload my videos and stream to my friends, and where my partner can play her horror games to the entertainment of many :ha:
peertube.existiert.ch/w/vVsXDA…
The only problem I personally face: My "performance" server doesn't have a lot of storage. But for now it's enough.
in reply to leberschnitzel

@leberschnitzel thank you for this testimony. I will try to use sepia search and PeerTube in my mobile browser as a workaround to the Apple and Google whitelists.

A question about your instance: how much RAM / space / bandwidth would you say you need at a minimum? Are you using their P2P system?

I'm thinking of setting up my own instance, too...

in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

that really depends on how much traffic you expect. I know that my instance will most likely not blow up, so traffic will be not that much. And the p2p System should help in case it does. My other specs I'll give you later today since I'm currently traveling and can't check easily 🙃
in reply to leberschnitzel

so, the system is a virtual machine on proxmox that has 8 CPU cores available and 500 GB SSD storage. The containers are limited to 512MB RAM for Redis, 1GB for postgres and 4GB for peertube. The virtual server has 16GB and is shared with mastodon so there would be the possibility to increase if needed, but so far with ~5 people watching streams and only singular people watching videos at once it handles that easy.
Internet is 100Mbit Up, 1Gbit Down, which also works nicely.
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in reply to leberschnitzel

I'm not sure if that's possible on iPhones too, but on Android I just add a shortcut to the website and that makes it open in my browser.
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

Something I really like about the Fediverse is that I only need this one account to find and follow different types of content. I wish more creators joined!
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Elena Rossini ⁂

@luca yeah I am addressing this in part 2 - namely: how long it takes to make a 5 minute video with good production values. It's in the ballpark of 20-30 hours of work!

Script, shooting, editing, motion graphics, color-grading, sound editing, sound mix with music, compression/optimization, creating a catchy cover image, subtitles...

SO MUCH WORK

in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

wow this is really comprehensive, great resource for people following in your footsteps.
in reply to PAIGE! 🍁

thank you for the kind words Paige. And I LOVE your videos... if that's ok I'll send you a couple of questions early next week, I'd love to feature you in part 2
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

sounds good. Now that we've gotten into the groove releasing videos it'd be cool to do a podcast episode about your own fediverse adventures.
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

Peertube also have challenge of having casual uploaders. One thing if you have following and know your audience so you might selfhost as you already have income. Other is someone who (aka me) want to upload gameplay videos with challenges or just how to beat stage, short but still takes space. Finding instance that will give you space to host is hard. Most will have moderator registration approval. I had channel on one instance and got close to my youtube uploads.
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

ohhhhhh I'm featured!! Thank you so much Elena! That's just so nice from you!
in reply to Franz Graf

of course, I love your videos!

as someone who loves nature & walking but hates cold temperatures, I love the opportunity to go on virtual hikes with you in such beautiful settings... while staying in the warmth of my home 🤗

in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

As someone interested in both the Fediverse and RSS, I though I might point you at a recent project I did that lets you subscribe to communities in Lemmy and Mbin through your RSS aggregator.

The idea is to create your own feeds that surface the top upvoted community posts, reducing the firehose of posts. You set the threshold, and the RSS feeds optionally include content, summaries, and comments. And it can be self-hosted. I invite you to take it for a spin!

upvote-rss.com/

in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

BTW what I just learned through your article is that we can follow Peertube also through pocketcast / Podcast clients!
That's ... amazing! Never thought about that!
in reply to Franz Graf

I need to edit the article and give credit to @liaizon about this. It’s such a brilliant tip!
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

reading it now! So glad to see this article, really well done!
(Quick notes: "I can interact with FediHost's videos, like them, comment on them and follow this PeerTube channel from any Fediverse social account I have (Mastodon, Pixelfed, Friendica or Sharkey)." I am pretty sure you can not like or respond to a peertube video from Pixelfed.)
in reply to wakest ⁂

@liaizon thank you for the note - I had been meaning to try Pixelfed integration with PeerTube. On my to do list - will report back 🤗

@hikingdude

in reply to wakest ⁂

@liaizon I've just updated the article crediting you for the fantastic RSS tip. And I've removed the Pixelfed mention - you were right, the two are not interoperable for now

blog.elenarossini.com/peertube…

in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

@liaizon it really is a great tipp! Being able to have it in your favorite RSS reader or putting it on a self-hosted "Audiobookshelf" instance is just so handy! And makes it possible for people that don't want an fedi account to follow your things!
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

Thanks once more for this profound articles.

One interesting topic is ether lack of content is a peertube problem or a community challenge. Maybe looking this way triggers more responsability to creators.

Regarding mobile apps, I think initial releases allowed to manually add servers. Maybe this has changed!

Thanks for the work!

in reply to marcelcosta

@marcelcosta great point. It's definitely something I want to address in part 2. Producing videos is SO TIME CONSUMING...

I understand why people who do this regularly opt for other platforms instead for monetization reasons.

Then you have prolific video makers like @vkc who get financial support on Patreon and Ko-Fi, which allows her to have money, time and resources to make + share videos on PeerTube. I think her model for now is the most sustainable out there. And I LOVE her videos

in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

I think this is a key point, and unfortunately is not an easy one. The challenge is general: how do we collectively support our creators that don’t produce material things? And I am thinking on artist, journalists, free software developers, etc…

So one option is patronage, and may be helpful (I do support some people that way). But if we let the responsability to be at the individual level, then it can be very scary and unstable for the creator.

In my head, we should address this in a community-way, stepping in our responsability to support this immaterial contribution.

This is a very interesting and relevant debate!! ❤️

in reply to marcelcosta

@marcelcosta indeed, creator burnout is a real issue (very common on YouTube). Such a great debate worth having ❤️
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

Thanks for this review, and I have a follow-up question.

There are few people that I trust as much as you on the topic of online video. I have been active in photography, vector graphics and "pixel-pushing" for decades, but creating video content remains my White Whale. That said, I just started :)

As a beginner in the video space, not looking to start a channel or "build a following" for regular shows, would you say an account on Peertube is a good fit? For now, I basically need a space where I can host my first videos. Also to to share links via Mastodon and to embed them on my WordPress blog. I am also looking to find online communities where I can share my clips and stories to solicit feedback to learn and evolve.

Thanks!

in reply to Tormod

@airwhale thank you for the great question: it's the issue at the top of my mind for the next two weeks, as I will show PeerTube from the POV of creators.

The short answer would be: yes, on an instance that is in line with your values and the kind of videos you want to share. ActivityPub is INCREDIBLE for all the "superpowers" it grants creators. And embedding works really well... I didn't embed videos in my post because they show up blank in Ghost newsletters, so I had to use that workaround

in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

Thanks for that Elena, will start looking for a suitable instance 🎬
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

Thanks for using the "More from" system. I'm a fan of it. So far I only know about it to be viewable/working on Mastodon.

More from = Elena Rossini ⁂ (link to mastodon.social/@_elena)

#MoreFrom #MastodonAuthorCard

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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

i completely share your view contentwise. the largest intances are full of german conspiracy theory people. would be cool, to have a mirror of archive.org feature films for example. like wikiflix.toolforge.org or we do not need to connect everything to the fediverse ;)
in reply to ralf tauscher

@stereo yeah, the struggle is real. the first instance where I tried to set up an account as a creator was FILLED with pirated documentaries - even proudly showcased on explore.

Zero trust for the instance and pretty bad look if you're looking to attract indie filmmakers...

BTW the illegal content is still there - not just from documentaries, but PBS shows, with the watermark and everything, sigh

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Elena Rossini ⁂

@streetcoder yes I'm aware but every time I tweaked the URLs in Mastodon, my Ghost installation went offline. it makes ZERO sense, but it happened twice today.. I had to restore the site from backups.

So now I'm not touching any URLs here on Mastodon and just waiting for DNS records and nginx code to propagate / take effect

in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

in reply to ilja

@ilja ilja ! As usual you’re a star 💫

thank you for the fantastic explanation. I was embarrassed to share my suspicions because to me it made absolute no sense and I was afraid of coming off as a clueless newbie. But this makes PERFECT sense! Thank you!!!

Now understanding what you say is one thing, implementing the cache thing is a whole other issue 😂

@streetcoder

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Elena Rossini ⁂

@ilja I’m eternally grateful to you for introducing me to YunoHost and for clarifying this big thing about my “haunted” Ghost installation, so please keep replying.

Your messages are never annoying, they’re illuminating. Really! THANK YOUUUU

P.S.: now I’m scared to share links to my new blog on here 😅

@streetcoder

in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

ahah :blobfoxlaughsweat: i'll say, i do sometimes wonder if maybe i'm not annoying with replying, but if you say it like that, i assume it's still alright :blobfoxlaughsweat:

yeah, implementing (and testing) is another thing, but hey, self hosting wouldn't be an adventure otherwise :blobfoxhappy:

@streetcoder

in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

My Firefox install is complaining about the connection to blog.elenarossini.com not being secure. I'm not sure why but thought I should say something.
in reply to Matt 🔶 (LordMatt)

@lordmatt thanks! Try using news as the subdomain instead (not linking here because I’m having a cache problem with Mastodon card previews)