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a small « support us » donation link in our website footer or even on one of the allowed platforms triggered a « nope » from Apple.

Christ. Caring about your rights and using Apple products is not compatible.

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I don’t think it has to be all-or-nothing when it comes to caring about your rights. I care about my rights, but might still have to deal with a Windows PC for select use cases.

I have friends who undoubtedly care about their rights and simultaneously own an iPhone. Does it make them a hypocrite? I don’t think so. I think it means that “caring about your rights” is situationally, and generally, really difficult to put into practice in 2024 and not everyone can go full RMS and completely forgo all cell phone use on principle.

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You can still install things on your Windows PC. Apple’s control over their ecosystem is to a degree where you have no meaningful ownership over your hardware any more.

I think people don’t need to be hypocritical, it’s enough to be ignorant. But if you care enough not to be ignorant and you still tolerate it, you might have a problem walking the walk rather than just talking the talk.

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But if you care enough not to be ignorant and you still tolerate it, you might have a problem walking the walk rather than just talking the talk.

I think it’s disingenuous to suggest that people are only “walking the walk” if they take every single avenue possible to protect every single right they believe they have. I run Linux on every device I own, but the CPUs on those systems are still largely vulnerable to privacy violations from things like Intel Management Engine and other vectors caused by closed-source blobs in the firmware. Am I only “walking the walk” if I also go the extra mile to flash Coreboot or Libreboot to my devices?

If you believe in your right to privacy, you shouldn’t own a cell phone at all, should you? Even a dumb flip phone allows governments and other private entities with enough power or resources to monitor your location at all times.

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so is peertube like open source youtube? looking at the videos its the same cringy youtube thumbnails. id like just regular videos not stupid yellow text with an arrow pointing to the subject like im a fucking 3 year old toddler.

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I think this happens because everyone does this in youtube and by habit people do it on other platforms.

But at the same time, clickbait works and that’s the problem basically. If a clickbait tittle gives you more views and you want to be relevant doing clickbait tittles will help to get to that goal.

Hopefully with time and less algorithms promoting this behavior we will have less clickbait stuff but I don’t think it will never disappear, specially when there’s a big industry behind.

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doesn’t work on me, i skip crap like that.

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Ok, I’ve been anxiously waiting for an easy way to incorporate PeerTube into my Apple centric entertainment stack. Unfortunately, this app doesn’t do it for me — the design is confusing and not prioritizing the ability to login (easy access to synced subscriptions) is wild to me. Also not sure why there isn’t an Apple TV app yet. Beyond that, the frequent use of AI generated marketing photos for PeerTube is creating another bad taste in my mouth. In summary, I’m more pessimistic about this project than I was a couple months ago.

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not prioritizing the ability to login (easy access to synced subscriptions) is wild to me

I was so surprised by this as well. I thought I just couldn’t find the login at first. Well at least the feature is planned for next year.

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Have they been using AI art? All of their art that I’ve noticed has been from David Revoy.

And it’s a fairly small open source project that only started working on the phone app last year. It’s not that surprising they haven’t gotten apps for every platform yet.

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My apologies if thats actually someones artwork. Guess the style just has that look, unfortunately.

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6 points

This app makes no sense as someone who has no idea how peertube is supposed to work. I think peertube will never take off unfortunately because no one is gonna host quality instances. Videos are just too expensive.

Are content creators we already know expected to start their own servers? Or will there be a general mega instance for everyone to post to. Not to mention the fact no ones going to get paid for all of this effort except maybe the instance getting donations.

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you’re welcome to help improve the project

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They are already helping by providing their feedback. It’s up to the existing team to address it.

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The app is the least of peertubes problems, I just think the entire concept is the most complicated and obtuse fediverse we have. Its hard enough for normal people to use Lemmy or Mastodon but PT is a whole different animal. Maybe PT should stop trying to be its own standalone service and integrate better with what we already have.

Maybe Lemmy and Mastodon could use PT as a backend for videos uploaded to their instance that could be found via a Lemmy community or tags via Mastodon.

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@jaxiiruff it’s all one fediverse, and it all communicates using activitypub. it’s not standalone.

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It’s integrating as best it can. It has an embeddable player and LDAP logins. It’s kind of a failure on the part of other platform Devs to use it.

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Are content creators we already know expected to start their own servers? Or will there be a general mega instance for everyone to post to.

Honestly - both?

Good examples are going to be Floatplane and Nebula for the single-content-creator platform and the group of creators platforms.

There’s no real reason you can’t build a platform and require someone to pay you to have access, and it seems to have been successful for both groups.

Video hosting is expensive, but it 's not prohibitive and a group of creators could certainly come up with a useful platform and self-host it and still be profitable.

Now, the question is, of course, if peertube is the right choice for that and if it offers anything they’d need, but that’s a different discussion.

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I just dont see it happening at all. Youtube may be too big to fail unless its somehow broken off of google into a nonprofit or something. An alternative I would be happy with is us switching to the internet archive. But im sure im alone in that. I also think posting videos will soon cost money to upload rather than being spammed nonstop as data hosting costs skyrocket.

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5 points

How do I “care for my attention”?

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This project shouldn’t pretend to be better than it is. They are poisoning the well imo.

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