There are already lots of places to post low value video. Basically, every social media site out there let’s you post the home movie you want your friends to see and don’t care if any stranger ever sees it.
I have a YouTube channel. It was created as part of an experiment that failed. I think I might have a total of 4 videos posted there. If it comes right down to it, the traffic I expect for my personal projects means I could just post any videos I create directly on my website.
And that personal website is where we need to get back to. I wish all the fancy programmers at Meta and elsewhere would just put their energies into creating the tools that let people put content on their own site as easily as on Facebook. Add some semi-structured data that can be leveraged by displaying the results of pre-built custom web searches and you should be able to approximate the experience of Facebook.
That’s one of the use-cases I’ve had in mind. You have your site, you have a video. If you posted your video to your site though PeerTube (or really any implementation of ActivityPub), both your direct site viewers AND anyone searching PeerTube (et al) would see it.
If lots of people did that, you have a basis for a version of distributed YouTube. Small creators’ (or people just messing around) videos might load slower or only have lower bandwidth options (resolution), but larger, focused creators (CorridorCrew, Kurzgesagt, SciShow, etc) would have more options through viewer support and collaborations.
There are already lots of places to post low value video. Basically, every social media site out there let’s you post the home movie you want your friends to see and don’t care if any stranger ever sees it.
I have a YouTube channel. It was created as part of an experiment that failed. I think I might have a total of 4 videos posted there. If it comes right down to it, the traffic I expect for my personal projects means I could just post any videos I create directly on my website.
And that personal website is where we need to get back to. I wish all the fancy programmers at Meta and elsewhere would just put their energies into creating the tools that let people put content on their own site as easily as on Facebook. Add some semi-structured data that can be leveraged by displaying the results of pre-built custom web searches and you should be able to approximate the experience of Facebook.
That’s one of the use-cases I’ve had in mind. You have your site, you have a video. If you posted your video to your site though PeerTube (or really any implementation of ActivityPub), both your direct site viewers AND anyone searching PeerTube (et al) would see it.
If lots of people did that, you have a basis for a version of distributed YouTube. Small creators’ (or people just messing around) videos might load slower or only have lower bandwidth options (resolution), but larger, focused creators (CorridorCrew, Kurzgesagt, SciShow, etc) would have more options through viewer support and collaborations.
Yes, that fits my own mental model of the online world I’d like to see.