Post · BT Free Social

Can anyone recommend a #PeerTube instance for hosting long original video interviews?

Am happy to donate towards upkeep - indeed would prefer to know there was a model for paying for hosting, moderation and maintenance, as would like to think the instance will still be up in a decade's time.

UPDATE: thank everyone for boosts, suggestions & offers.

I ended up with own instance via @weingaertner_it in the end. Covered by GDPR, "100% green electricity", £6/month and lets me use the open.movie domain I've been sitting on since shutting my last expensive attempt at PeerTube a few years ago.

#peertube

FediThing :progress_pride:

@FediThing@social.chinwag.org · 2 months ago

@nicol

There's a good general one at https://tubefree.org which already carries many long original interviews by the owners of the instance. I'm sure they'd be fine with others uploading interviews too.

Also if you are okay paying for hosting might be worth considering your own instance through something like @fedihost , it's a lot cheaper than people realise (https://fedihost.co/hosting/peertube).

More info about both these options at https://fedi.tips/how-to-publish-videos-and-audio-on-peertube

Nicol Wistreich

@nicol@social.coop · 2 months ago

@FediThing @fedihost thanks alot - yes TubeFree looks a great option for a video community - and @ozoned was v friendly. Scott Jensen and LABR are great names to see when I first visited, and BT Free in general sounds a top org.

But I'm being drawn back to hosting myself… when I last tried five years ago there was no off-the-shelf and it cost me a ton and lots of headache (someone uploaded a perfect HD copy of Dune before it was out in cinemas, which has been prisonable in the UK!). But €7-15 is really appealing and I know better than having open signup now!

ozoned

@ozoned · 2 months ago

@nicol@social.coop if you need ANY help in setting up Peertube, any questions, if you want to federate with me, just let me know!

Honestly MORE Peertube servers is only a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

And, yes, sadly, open signups are just trouble. Having even a few barriers to entry, while it does put off some, has helped me keep the server fairly easy to manage. Folks have to ask to get an account. Then I make them ask again for some storage. Then I monitor the videos they put up until I know we're all on equal footing and then let them upload whatever.

It's a lot of work, but there's only been 1 instance of someone attempting to post copyrighted content and I turned them away and they haven't come back.

I'm hoping to offer like 50GB free, and then $1/month or $5/month above that. That little bit of money, those hurdles, show that if someone wants to do that, they're wanting to be a member of a community and not just use us as a dumping ground for content.

Nicol Wistreich

@nicol@social.coop · 2 months ago

@ozoned thanks so much!

This will be a one-user instance. I'll see how many resources it uses before changing that (five years ago I spent too much money on it but I was also doing it via YunoHost so was probably missing stuff).

I only got three submissions - one was a short film which I published, then there was a grainy copy of Maze Runner 3 then the HD Dune which forced me to shut signups. Human vetting sounds like the answer.

Sidenote: those sound good prices. I've been on social.coop since 2017 as it was the only instance back then that unashamedly asked for money to pay for bills and towards time…

One Q "if you want to federate with me" - does that mean peering videos / WebRTC? Or more like following to establish more legitimacy across the fediverse.

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ozoned

@ozoned · 2 months ago

@nicol@social.coop Peertube servers can follow other servers. So if your server followed mine you can watch my stuff on your server, but I can't watch your stuff unless I follow you. There are exceptions and more options, but follows of servers seems to be the general way folks connect to each other.

You can follow servers directly or you can run an index that lists servers to follow.

I currently run, as well as host ptindex.btfree.org/ , a public index for folks to pull into their Peertube if they wanna follow what I do.

I was attempting to work on a script to help automate this a bit more, but got completely sidetracked.

Nicol Wistreich

@nicol@social.coop · 2 months ago

@ozoned ah thanks - yes this is something I didn’t fully get my head around last time - the differences with Mastodon around this.

ozoned

@ozoned · 2 months ago

@nicol@social.coop YUP! 😊 That's the decentralized nature to this. It's all new to us, thanks to the evils of Big Tech. I'm MORE than happy to have any kind of discussion, video chat, livestream, etc. Helps me practice my Fedi Pitch and learn how best to help folks.

What I'm saying is, you have any questions, want to sit down, etc, I am here.

ozoned

@ozoned · 2 months ago

@booteille@framapiaf.org @nicol@social.coop I have TubeFree.org where I post my own interviews for Fireside Fedi and it's open to others.

Nicol Wistreich

@nicol@social.coop · 2 months ago

@ozoned @booteille thanks alot - looks great! And you've got LABR there…