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Because the user experience is horrible for non-creators.
True.
Peertube has been hamstrung by a very poorly-made design decision early on.
It's my understanding that peertube copies all of the content from hosts it federates with. That's a huge waste of storage and the main reason why most peertube instances hardly federate with anything.
Instead, peertube developers should implement the option for servers to duplicate data, or simply load the data through a link to a server that hosts it.
It's still young and they've done a pretty good job with everything except this fundamental flaw. Hopefully if enough people hear about this idea and promote it, we can see it implemented and then Peertube can really take off.
That's optional. You have to opt in to mirror a server.
I don't think that's true.
It's my understanding that by federating, you are duplicating the data from the servers you federate with on your own.
The server itself has the option to turn that off or on. And most dont turn that on. Its off by default.
Source: I host a peertube instance.
Does this mean users won't be able to see videos hosted on other platforms from your instance?
Thats a good question.
Users are still able to see their videos, it just does not create a local copy unless you enable that on your server. Its just a pass-though.
EX:
You can see that more clearly here:
And here is my subscriptions (looks and functions identical to Youtubes subscriptions):
But the videos are on their respective servers.
Federation still occurs (and admins can be very specific if they want):
Hope that makes sense!
You might want to look more into how peertube works then.
User experience can be improved pretty easily.
The important parts are already there.
Easier said than done. Reason after all these years it still hasn't been addressed.
I really don't think it is.
As an engineer with almost 2 decades of experience (including streaming sites)... It is.
Well, we'd have to be more specific about what parts of the "user experience" we're talking about here in order to make that assessment.
I'm mostly talking about discoverability, the default algorithms, the lack of federation, and a way to actually filter content by language.