I would like to finally quit YouTube, which will be significant for me in that I'll be severing my last tie to corporate tech.
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yeah that's the thing! i just learned about it last week. which is you know, very symbolic of the whole situation.
people like you and me should OBVIOUSLY know about it, right? how do we "promote" it?
maybe we need to hire some anarchists to pirate everything they find interesting and not slop or ragebait, pirate it and put it on a peertube for us to watch.
@lislegaard haha I love that! The Fedi is so under the radar, it might just work...
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I would like to finally quit YouTube, which will be significant for me in that I'll be severing my last tie to corporate tech. Yay!
I have a YT channel, but that's not what keeps me on YT. It's about the awesome, bite-sized, high-quality video essays that I enjoy so much. I just can't read books ALL the time, damnit! It serves the same need for me as magazines, but...VIDEO!
I want to explore PeerTube more for sure. Anyone else have suggestions? How about Nebula?
@alisynthesis In the same position here! Everything else is relatively easy to do without (except when *bad people force my into a shared g00gled doc). No answer outside of PeerTube but I hope someone posts some good info we can all benefit from.
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@alisynthesis In the same position here! Everything else is relatively easy to do without (except when *bad people force my into a shared g00gled doc). No answer outside of PeerTube but I hope someone posts some good info we can all benefit from.
@inpc check out Sepia Search, a suggestion from @lislegaard
Sepia Search
A search engine of PeerTube videos, channels and playlists, developed by Framasoft
Sepia Search (sepiasearch.org)
I think I'm going to lean hard into watching fewer videos to make this work for me. Just hoping I can ease the transition with PeerTube, Nebula, etc.
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yeah that's the thing! i just learned about it last week. which is you know, very symbolic of the whole situation.
people like you and me should OBVIOUSLY know about it, right? how do we "promote" it?
maybe we need to hire some anarchists to pirate everything they find interesting and not slop or ragebait, pirate it and put it on a peertube for us to watch.
#peertube needs a site/app as similar to the YouTube site/app as possible. but make it FOSS and push others to make their own. but people need an example that feels like what they are used to.
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@lislegaard haha I love that! The Fedi is so under the radar, it might just work...
but it is really really good to just at LEAST challenge the mindset that we HAVE to do everything on youtube. it reminds me of spotify for mysic in many ways.
also, i don't do any surveilance of my self hosted stuff, but i would HOPE the gender balance on my website and owncast is pretty different from my youtube...
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I would like to finally quit YouTube, which will be significant for me in that I'll be severing my last tie to corporate tech. Yay!
I have a YT channel, but that's not what keeps me on YT. It's about the awesome, bite-sized, high-quality video essays that I enjoy so much. I just can't read books ALL the time, damnit! It serves the same need for me as magazines, but...VIDEO!
I want to explore PeerTube more for sure. Anyone else have suggestions? How about Nebula?
@alisynthesis Yep. YT was one of the last things for me to sever. In the end, it wasn't as painful as I thought. Most of the stuff that's interesting to me is on archive.org anyway. And if I do need to go to YT, I just watch the vid within DuckDuckGo viewer, which strips out ads (and doesn't give the creeps any more info about me).
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@inpc check out Sepia Search, a suggestion from @lislegaard
Sepia Search
A search engine of PeerTube videos, channels and playlists, developed by Framasoft
Sepia Search (sepiasearch.org)
I think I'm going to lean hard into watching fewer videos to make this work for me. Just hoping I can ease the transition with PeerTube, Nebula, etc.
@alisynthesis @inpc @lislegaard
If you are on Firefox or derivative you can do this to make searching that much easier
Lime Bar (@limebar@mastodon.social)
Attached: 3 images #Firefox allows you to add new search engine keywords by right clicking on a search field at a site and picking "add a keyword for this search" #Peertube has a search engine that searches across instances called #SepiaSearch at https://sepiaSearch.org But Firefox creates a broken search when you do this. Fix it by changing the search URL to add "search" between the / and the ? like so: https://sepiasearch.org/search?search=%s Now you can search for videos by typing in the search bar like: pt kittens
Mastodon (mastodon.social)
So you can type in the address bar
"peertube cat videos"
or set it up as
"pt cat videos"
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but it is really really good to just at LEAST challenge the mindset that we HAVE to do everything on youtube. it reminds me of spotify for mysic in many ways.
also, i don't do any surveilance of my self hosted stuff, but i would HOPE the gender balance on my website and owncast is pretty different from my youtube...
@lislegaard hey, I just checked my yt gender stats and it looks like there's been some affirmative action!
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@alisynthesis Yep. YT was one of the last things for me to sever. In the end, it wasn't as painful as I thought. Most of the stuff that's interesting to me is on archive.org anyway. And if I do need to go to YT, I just watch the vid within DuckDuckGo viewer, which strips out ads (and doesn't give the creeps any more info about me).
@flockofnazguls great tips and positive reinforcement!
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@alisynthesis @inpc @lislegaard
If you are on Firefox or derivative you can do this to make searching that much easier
Lime Bar (@limebar@mastodon.social)
Attached: 3 images #Firefox allows you to add new search engine keywords by right clicking on a search field at a site and picking "add a keyword for this search" #Peertube has a search engine that searches across instances called #SepiaSearch at https://sepiaSearch.org But Firefox creates a broken search when you do this. Fix it by changing the search URL to add "search" between the / and the ? like so: https://sepiasearch.org/search?search=%s Now you can search for videos by typing in the search bar like: pt kittens
Mastodon (mastodon.social)
So you can type in the address bar
"peertube cat videos"
or set it up as
"pt cat videos"
@limebar that's freaking awesome. I'm definitely doing that. Thank you!
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@lislegaard hey, I just checked my yt gender stats and it looks like there's been some affirmative action!
@lislegaard (it has always been 100% male when I've looked before.)
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@tsrono oof, that's exactly what I'm afraid will happen to me!
It would probably be better for me to just watch fewer videos. But DAMN, come on!
@alisynthesis yeahhhhhhh hate to say it but very possible you may run the same as me on that
good news is it's pushing me to just listen to music a bit more which i have already bought thousands of dollars worth of so...got lots of that available already 'sunk cost' (tho i don't look at a purchase as the same as a subscription...not exactly) so i am just watching less videos & haven't been committed to a mental health hospital. yet. lol
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@limebar that's freaking awesome. I'm definitely doing that. Thank you!
good shout. i had google "g" (not my default) and youtube "y" already.
just added "p" for peertube!
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@alisynthesis yeahhhhhhh hate to say it but very possible you may run the same as me on that
good news is it's pushing me to just listen to music a bit more which i have already bought thousands of dollars worth of so...got lots of that available already 'sunk cost' (tho i don't look at a purchase as the same as a subscription...not exactly) so i am just watching less videos & haven't been committed to a mental health hospital. yet. lol
@tsrono I think we're all on the doorstep of the mental health hospital at this point. I mean, if we had any, we'd probably all be in there, honestly.
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@tsrono I think we're all on the doorstep of the mental health hospital at this point. I mean, if we had any, we'd probably all be in there, honestly.
@alisynthesis seriously, anything that can provide temporary respite these days is welcome.
btw i have already found a number of new things on Nebula, so its like there's nothing new there! just not near as wide of a scope as YT obv.
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@alisynthesis seriously, anything that can provide temporary respite these days is welcome.
btw i have already found a number of new things on Nebula, so its like there's nothing new there! just not near as wide of a scope as YT obv.
@tsrono that might really work for me. I desperately don't want to see the kinds of things that Google feeds me because I'm susceptible to them. I think I'm going to give it a try!
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@tsrono that might really work for me. I desperately don't want to see the kinds of things that Google feeds me because I'm susceptible to them. I think I'm going to give it a try!
@alisynthesis hmu w/ anything ofc!
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I would like to finally quit YouTube, which will be significant for me in that I'll be severing my last tie to corporate tech. Yay!
I have a YT channel, but that's not what keeps me on YT. It's about the awesome, bite-sized, high-quality video essays that I enjoy so much. I just can't read books ALL the time, damnit! It serves the same need for me as magazines, but...VIDEO!
I want to explore PeerTube more for sure. Anyone else have suggestions? How about Nebula?
@alisynthesis if you happen to like bookish content (mostly Romantasy), then I have a PeerTube Suggestion for you.
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@lislegaard (it has always been 100% male when I've looked before.)
too bad it is soo addicting. i have been trying to watch movies and series rather than youtube lately, but it is hard.
let me know how you are doing after a month?
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#peertube needs a site/app as similar to the YouTube site/app as possible. but make it FOSS and push others to make their own. but people need an example that feels like what they are used to.
@wjmaggos @lislegaard @alisynthesis It is possible to subscribe to PeerTube channels on some alternative apps, such as NewPipe.
Another thing you can do is follow them right here. Which has the advantage that you can like, comment, and share the videos for others to potential follow here too.
Example: @potterybyosa is a channel on the PeerTube instance MakerTube. Which you can see in the name.
