it’s an extraordinary claim, but i don’t disbelieve it. has anyone else heard anything about this?

  • @roo@lemmy.one
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    01 year ago

    Seems feasible considering every attempt to discuss using more Fediverse just gets ignored. Like Peertube is sitting right there, but everyone that joined Mastodon instances is sharing YouTube links.

    But people are like this in general, so it might be just predictable behaviour.

    Friendi.ca is a Facebook alternative, but I don’t want to leave anonymity again.

    Pixelfed is a good Instagram alternative.

    • Cambionn
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      11 year ago

      Like Peertube is sitting right there, but everyone that joined Mastodon instances is sharing YouTube links.

      Yeah, but often the stuff you want to share isn’t on PeerTube. I think that’s more the issue than people not wanting to use it/share from it.

      I don’t even use YT directly, always trough a privacy front-end. When I share however, I share the link to YT instead of to the front-end. There are multiple privacy front-ends, and for most devices there are ways to redirect those. By linking the original link, they can redirect to whichever they preffer.

      A lot of stuff I follow is on Mastodon nowadays, and Lemmy isn’t as much about following specific people but topics and conversations. But a lot of channels I like are not on PeerTube. Only if they switch, or a lot of new equally interesting ones take their place, will linking PeerTube become the norm. But whenever I check PeerTube now, it’s just not that interesting.

    • man0fbass
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      01 year ago

      People are still using YouTube because it still works for them. Once Google ships something that changes that, folks will start looking for alternatives. Same goes for Owncast and Twitch.

      • yourgodlucifer
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        31 year ago

        I feel like the problem with moving away from youtube is that the larger chanels making money off of it arent going to want to move because they wont get monitized if they do. If they do move it will probably be to another corperate platform.

        I really dont like what youtube is planning on doing by restricting adblockers and adding more unskippable ads though. Hopefully that moves at least some people to peertube.