• FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    9·
    6 days ago

    So many things:

    • A closed caption system like youtube. I’m deaf so 90% of peertube videos are just unwatchable to me.
    • A working mobile app.
    • An easy guide to instances that is clear on which instances are mainly local vids and which basically federate with everything. Ideally, a couple, lemmy.world, lemm.ee style peertube instances that are general purpose and kind of have everything I can direct people who want to join too.
    • A non-personalised algorithm. Ie. recommend similar high rated videos.
    • wisely@feddit.orgEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      You are probably already aware but YouTube’s closed captions are very inaccurate. I’m sure it’s better than nothing though.

    • manicdave@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      Admins are able to add external search engines. Most use sepia search and it pretty much covers all the non-sketchy stuff.

  • rosahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    5·
    7 days ago

    It’s mainly finding videos for me. I’ve been able to find a few interesting ones, but largely it’s either difficult to find, or not there at all. I myself have actually been considering making some videos to help the content drought, but then the ideas, or knowledge of what people could be receptive to doesn’t quite come.

    also as a newpipe user, being able to search all of my selected instances at once, or with sepiasearch could be nice, but thats not up to peertube

  • fxomt@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    7 days ago

    Better federation. The vidiverse search is just bad, i want to watch all types of content from my account.

    And more general instances; i’m on spectra.video now, but as i said the vidiverse search sucks and it’s not federated to enough instances :/

      • fxomt@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        7 days ago

        Yeah :/ in some instances it is, but it’s usually broken.

        I especially wish i could actually interact with those videos from my account, such as liking or commenting. There are three types of instances: no sign ups, outdated or no content on them.

  • sith@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    7 days ago

    Better federation and search. Make it easier for content creators and instance runners to monetize. Make it easier to script your own feed/recommendations.

    All of the above is true for all software on the fediverse. But monetization especially for PeerTube. Pay to watch, donations and ads should all be options in the official implementation. Because of the high cost of running a large high bandwidth instance (if that wasn’t obvious).

    Seems like the only ones who really benefit from PeerTube right now are right-wing extremists. The only large Swedish instances are far-right. And they are big because of content supply and demand.

  • pseudo@jlai.luEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    Automatic subtitles. I know… Not the easiest functionality to develop but I do miss it from Youtube.

  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    I tried to sign up for an account, I was going to use it to create long form content, so I picked some tags (which definitely leave out too many broad categories to be particularly useful, and is thus incredibly limiting) that seemed somewhat related to what I wanted to do.

    I then looked through the instance list based on those tags, and tried to find one that fit… and I couldn’t, because all of them had some caveat or blurb or whatever that made me go “nope, probably not here…”

    The problem is that I had to click through multiple pages to hit those caveats in the instance rules/description during the signup process, and I had to do it for every one I wanted to check out. They weren’t at all listed on the main page, and they probably should be, maybe under a popup tooltip sort of button. As it stands it was a huge waste of time, and I gave up, and lost interest in having a channel. Maybe I’ll browse it if it ever picks up, but frankly the process of signing up to be a content creator is far too onerous.

    Maybe that’s a problem with the instance owners and how they have things set up, maybe with the way the whole platform works, I don’t really know. It was pretty consistent though, so I assume it’s a platform problem.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
    50·
    7 days ago

    I think it’s mainly the content. We need some good content, creative people and interesting videos on the platform. Yeah and maybe discoverability. People also need to get those videos displayed/recommended to them. Other than that, a good app is always nice. That’s already been worked on. But regarding the technology, I think Peertube works quite nicely these days. And it has a good amount of features as well.

    • jqubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      211·
      7 days ago

      The question is how to get the creators there. A lot of people are on YouTube because of the ad revenue, but with no ads on PeerTube there’s no revenue to share. A lot of other for-profit companies have tried to lure these creators away with little success, so I’m not sure how a non-profit service is supposed to attract people who have turned content creation into a career.

      • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago
        1. Most people who submit videos do it because they enjoy it, not to start a career (or at least it doesn’t begin that way).
        2. Most creators at this point have sponsor-spots in their videos. That’s still monetization they control.
        3. Donations are a thing. Both to Framasoft (Peertube developers) as well as direct to the creators themselves. This still makes up a large portion of creator income.
        4. Personal sales. Lots of creators have their own products these days. Some of them are novel and others are high quality.
        5. Affiliate links to product promotions.

        Peertube makes it really easy to promote whatever you want in the “support” button.

        So really the only thing they’re missing out on is adsense. Which, fuck Google. And is only a small (but not insignificant) portion of their income.

      • StaticFalconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        Peertube is perfect for those niche things that aren’t revenue friendly. Add in the creator needs to be big enough to be self sufficient from patreon, its the plateform that isnt limited by ad sense BS or what trendy shit is happening.

      • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
        10·
        7 days ago

        Right. OP didn’t specify it has to be a technical shortcoming… or easy to solve. So I just said what I think is the biggest issue. Because I really think the platform itself, and the software are great. And still constantly improving.

        I think this is really difficult to impossible to overcome. Other for-profit platforms have failed at this. Even the big players like Youtube, TikTok etc needed a huge pile of money, investors and an unethical business model to succeed. And I’m pretty sure we don’t want that with PeerTube.

        I think what we currectly, realistically can do is have a few big content creators do it for fun. And host their stuff on PeerTube. But that needs some other motivation than making money.

        Ultimately, the majority of the worth or value of a platform like this isn’t in the program code. But in the content and userbase. And I think that’s where the focus needs to be when we want to grow or improve it for the potential users.

      • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
        5·
        7 days ago

        For long-form video creators a Patreon like subscription service might work, but I very much agree with you that this is the main issue. Peertube works fine from the technical side of things.

    • MoonlightFox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      7 days ago

      Making some sort of monetization scheme in which creators are paid more per view than YouTube, would solve a lot.

      Then creators might as well spend the extra couple of minutes to also upload to PeerTube, because they make more money per view there.