The difficulties we are having with PeerTube

[Jeff Huang]

Hi,
I prefer setting up a managed instance by our sysadmins (when they have
less workload of course), maybe we can check debian.social how they do?

Regards,
Jeff

Paul Brown <paul.brown at kde.org> 於 2021年1月30日 週六 下午8:49 寫道：

> 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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