The difficulties we are having with PeerTube

[Ben Cooksley]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 1:49 AM Paul Brown <paul.brown at kde.org> wrote:

> 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
>

In terms of comparing PeerTube vs. our CDN, what would be the major
difference here?

If there isn't much difference (aside from say allowing for commenting and
voting) then perhaps it would be best if we made use of our CDN - coupled
with some customised pages for each one providing links to things like
slides, etc?


> Thoughts?
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
>

Cheers,
Ben


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