PeerTube is a decentralized and federated alternative to YouTube. The goal of PeerTube is not to replace YouTube but to offer a viable alternative using the strength of ActivityPub and P2P protocols.

Being built on ActivityPub means PeerTube is able to be part of a bigger social network, the Fediverse (the Federated Universe). On the other hand, P2P technologies help PeerTube to solve the issue of money, inbound with all streaming platform : With PeerTube, you don't need to have a lot of bandwidth available on your server to host a PeerTube platform because all users (which didn't disable the feature) watching a video on PeerTube will be able to share this same video to other viewers.

If you are curious about PeerTube, we can't recommend you enough to check the official website to learn more about the project. If after that you want to try to use PeerTube as a content creator, you can try to find a platform available there to register or host yourself your own PeerTube platform on your own server.

The development of PeerTube is actually sponsored by Framasoft, a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, a group of friends convinced that an emancipating digital world is possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on real world and online with and for you!

If you want to contribute to PeerTube, feel free to:

Report bugs and give your feedback on Github or on our forums

Submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform

Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide

Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube.

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[–] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 24 minutes ago* (last edited 19 minutes ago)

please tell me I can actually upload videos and, like, do anything at all with my channel now

edit: god dammit 🤦🏻

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

Oh great!

I had been using the Beta version which added online accounts a while ago.

I’m looking forward to trying 1.0✌️

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 15 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

When do we get that version on F-Droid?

Also, is the body text just a low effort copy-paste of what Peertube is? We know that... And there is a news article about the new version which could have been copy pasted instead: https://joinpeertube.org/news/app-v1

[–] Donut@piefed.social 8 points 8 hours ago

Yeah I was wondering too where the patch notes were. Thanks for linking!

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I see a fdroid link did you try? https://docs.joinpeertube.org/use-mobile/get-the-app

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 10 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Yes, thanks for the link. It says version 0.6 from january.

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

You should be able to use Obtainium with this link to download directly from their git source and stay up to date.

Edit: Changed source link.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 5 points 4 hours ago

Thanks. I think I'd like to go with the recommendation to wait, though. I like the concept of F-Droid, and what they do to have some additional pairs of eyes on the builds, strip tracking libraries etc.

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 hours ago

I think F-Droid apps usually take some days longer as they build the app by themselves

[–] tisktisk@piefed.social 8 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

What does peertube solve ultimately? How can we be confident in it's sustainability and roadmap? The idea sounds great but the practicality seems to be missing. (Not knocking it, just curious)

[–] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 22 minutes ago

one important aspect: it defrays the cost of hosting popular videos somewhat via a bittorrent-like mechanism. but as I understand it, they have to be popular enough that >1 person on the planet is watching them simultaneously for this to make a difference.

[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 14 points 7 hours ago

It solves a pretty hard problem that is a self-hosted video platform; a lot of places use YouTube to host videos, even if they aren't doing so to make money through adsense, this is for their own site material, posting to groupchats, and similar purposes.

Issue is that otherwise you rely on platform owners like Google, who can decide to unperson you, your business, or an employee. It effectively happened to me, YT terminated my channel for unsubstantiated reasons, and hosting my own peertube is likely in the future to replace where I host my decades of video content.

Further, ideologically, we should be collectively moving away from "platforms" for what should be obvious reasons to those of us on the fediverse.

[–] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I think the more interest it raises, the more donations we can expect for developers and instances.

What does peertube solve ultimately?

Once full featured, basically everything.