Personally, I'd prefer peertube, but federation is hard so lbry or odysee got more traction.
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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.
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.
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.
LBRY is a neat idea, but all the wacko extremists that managed to somehow get kicked off YouTube have taken it over and scared off most of the sane people. There are some good tech videos that still get mirrored there, but overall it's not a good experience.
Peertube seems like an even better idea, but so far it's catching on even less. Maybe someday it will get popular enough to be great, but for now it's kind of just not very useful. The big thing it's missing that I think is stopping it from catching on is an effective way of finding videos you might be interested in, especially from smaller instances.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ownstream, for streaming
Edit: meant owncast
How does it compare to Owncast?