I’ve been reading about both, yet I saw a lot of criticism and mixed opinions.

What do you think about them? What changes would you like to see? Do you know other promising alternatives?

    • Drew Got No Clue@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      3 years ago

      Going to a PeerTube home page feels like a weird mix of Interdimensional Cable and very early YouTube.

      Discoverability is almost 0 and I can’t easily find any videos that I’d like to watch, as you said. I assume most people would leave once they see what’s on the home page.

      • goatmeal@monero.townEnglish
        1·
        3 years ago

        I have a peertube instance. I can’t get anyone to really care outside of the fediverse. I think peertube has a big chance to come out on top if so many new people are trying out the fediverse for the first time. getting everything to integrate properly would be a godsend.

      • Madiator2011@lm.madiator.cloudEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        It’s probably cause most instance owners disable global search to avoid having to moderate too much. Taking as owner of own PeerTube instance. About LBRY it’s great project I have been working with it for a long time. Thing that I liked about it is that we have actual content distribution server in opposite of PeerTube where most time video is being stored on single server.

  • Klaymore@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    3 years ago

    Odysee has a cooler interface, Peertube has cooler federation and webtorrent tech. LBRY does have some wacky cryptocurrency that you don’t need to use, and Peertube is part of the Fediverse so I can subscribe to Peertube channels from my Lemmy instance (I think, but comments and upvotes don’t seem to federate). Peertube is better I think but it doesn’t have that good of a search and stuff, and really anything is better than Youtube at this point.

  • possiblylinux127@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    3 years ago

    Lbry is a home for many antisemitic ideas. I like the concept but I find many of the videos offensive.

    Peertube offers more promising results but it is much smaller so there is less content.

    • Rowin of Win@beehaw.orgEnglish
      4·
      3 years ago

      Yeah! I noticed this too, I had it installed to follow specific creators and try out the platform and then BOOM! Nazis! I was so surprised and then realised that there were basically 2 groups there, those for the tech and those for the lack of moderation. I would love to see something more like Lemmy in terms of communities, moderation, and so on, all federated, but video is so damn heavy to serve and I just can’t imagine standard video codecs being up to the job of making it affordable.

  • David Palmer@lemmy.nzEnglish
    2·
    3 years ago

    I’ve hacked about with peertube a bit for work and it seems pretty polished. From a dev perspective it has a really good plugin architecture that makes tweaking an instance pretty easy.

  • Rowin of Win@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    3 years ago

    Are there any good instances of PeerTube anyone can recommend? I have seen a few but in terms of English language content it seems very sparse.

  • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    3 years ago

    Can’t tell you about PeerTube but in favor of LBRY (Odysee) there is an extension which automatically redirects you to Odysee if that video is on that site.