Youtube, for so many years, was just too good. Yes, they changed the 5 star rating system to likes and dislikes and a few years later disabled dislikes altogether, but their algorithm mostly digs up interesting content and it just works for creators and viewers.
This might change soon. Their new strategy to disallow ad-blockers will frustrate a certain kind of viewer. Those who dislike surveillance and like open-source tech, those who use uBlock Origin and know why.
Just like a few years ago mastodon suddenly reached a certain kind of popularity, because twitter had their first big fuckup, maybe Peertube is next. It certainly is the most polished decentralized solution that doesn’t use a blockchain. Creators or fans could easily host their own videos, fans can watch it, without ads.
I know this propably wont affect everyone since Youtube doesn’t roll out new ideas universally, but my youtube experience this last week has been unusually bad in other ways too.
The algorithm digging far moral outrages up and the button to turn of autoplay no-where in sight.
So yeah, but I’m afraid that Youtube isn’t reddit level dysfunctional, If Peertube, if we, start winning, Youtube will improve.
I think if anything close to what happened to Lemmy would happen to PeerTube it would break most of the instances.
Apart from the fact that none of us seems to be really on top of the whole sign-up thing, I really don’t see how.
I mean sure if anybody manages to get sign-up working and the the hordes come rolling in, sure, but as it is they’ll just hit a blank unresponsive wall and have to make their own instances.
Wont they?
The problem is content discovery. I don’t necessarily need a crazy algorithm to figure out to watch but I need to see lots of content in one place. That currently isn’t possible with peertube
