The difficulties we are having with PeerTube

[Paul Brown]

Hello Fellow Promoers,

Talking of videos the other day reminded me of our current PeerTube strategy: 
we haven't got one.

We did have one, but it went away when the hosting service we were using 
(peertube.mastodon.host) disappeared and did not come back.

Unfortunately, as long as we don't put up and maintain our own PeerTube 
instance, we have to rely on the charity of others. These "others" are usually 
small outfits, often even individuals, that can disappear at short or no notice 
for any number of reason -- which is what happened with 
peertube.mastodon.host.

To ensure they will be able to cope with storage and traffic, they often 
specialise, such is the case of TILVids (https://tilvids.com). TILVids is 
willing to put up things like our tips and tutorials, but balked at our 
suggestion of  uploading  also many hours of conference talks. For that, they 
pointed us to https://conf.tube/, specialised in conferences and where, it 
seems, someone has already set up a KDE account -- which we would have to take 
over. 

This would still leave us with the problem as to where to post our purely 
promotional videos, like for Plasma announcements or teasers and stuff like 
that.

The third option is to go with something like libre.video, which has a much 
more laissez-faire approach to content, allowing content from conspiracy-nuts, 
QAnon, nazis, anti-vaxxers and all sorts of scummy Internet low-life... I 
think I made a list where all items are identical.

To summarise, our options are:

- Try and convince sysadmins to set up a KDE managed PeerTube instance 
(awesome, but it feels unfair to increase their workload)

- Split our media over several instances (TILVid, Conf.tube, etc.)

- Go with the crazies

- Do nothing, use YouTube and/or just put videos on our CDN

Thoughts?

Cheers

Paul
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