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A free software to take back control of your videos

Peertube is an open, federated alternative to Youtube without advertising or tracking. On this site, you can find a good Peertube instance, with good rules, good moderation and most importantly a friendly community.

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Why Most PeerTube Instances Say No to New Users (And Why That’s Totally Fair) (lm.madiator.cloud)

submitted 1 day ago by Madiator2011@lm.madiator.cloud to c/peertube@lemmy.ml

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Hot take: Most PeerTube instances shouldn’t just hand out accounts to anyone—and here’s the reality check. Running a PeerTube server isn’t like YouTube. There’s no trillion-dollar corporation footing the bill. Instead, small community admins juggle:

The major points are:

Storage costs (video files add up fast!)
Moderation work (spam, trolls, and legal risks)
Bandwidth limits
Abuse handling (because yes, people will test boundaries) Yet, a lot of sign-up requests sound like (at least from what I see on my instance):

"I wanna upload videos." "I’m starting a Roblox channel."

Sorry, but that’s not enough. Admins aren’t obligated to give free hosting to strangers. A good admin looks for people who:

Fit the community’s vibe (e.g., a coding-focused instance won’t host gaming streams).
Show effort—like sharing a portfolio or explaining why their content adds value.

Example: If you applied with a sample of your work or a clear plan? Hell yes, I’d consider you. But if your pitch is just "I want free hosting," why should the community foot the bill?

TL;DR: PeerTube isn’t a free-for-all. "I just wanna upload stuff" isn’t a good reason. Bring something to the table.

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[–] simontherockjohnson@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah the better way is the people who want to upload whatever the fuck they want start their own instance or pay an existing instance for hosting.

The issue here is people want shit that costs money for free be cause they're used to a gigantic corporation that subsidizes a mountain of unending trash with a surveillance capitalist ad platform.

The entitlement here is insane. This is a community tool not a product. It doesn't owe anyone comparable service for a comparable price to YouTube.

This is such ZIRP Redditor brain, people aren't owed free services! Lemmy doesn't owe anyone free speech! PeerTube doesn't owe anyone hosting! Neither do the corporate behemoths, it's just that they don't give a shit about someone's shitty behavior because they're too busy making money selling them ads for SquareSpace and the US Army.

The migration to these tools is because ZIRP is over and the free services are being hollowed out and monetized to a much higher degree. We all lived a charmed treat-based online life between 2009 and 2024 that came from companies scamming the market by leveraging interest rates to give us shit below cost. Now the bill is coming due and the addicts of these platforms hate that their toys are being taken away and they expect other tools to feed their addictions.

What's worse is that it's actually cheaper than ever to get symmetric fiber internet in many regions of the country and truly do self-hosting, compared to being stuck on oversubscribed cable, DSL, and dialup. You used to have to pay $1,000 a month for a T1 to do that. Now you can pay $100 for 1 gig symmetric fiber.

There are solutions everywhere for this, people simply don't want to do the work and pay for them because what they want is to be addled by an ad based ZIRP model that was always going to implode.

[–] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

Well then I think it should just be indicated that you have to pay to join some instances.

It should be clear what the conditions to enter are.

I really don’t mind paying for stuff and I’m happy to support PeerTube and some of its creators.