Re: The difficulties we are having with PeerTube

On sábado, 30 de enero de 2021 14:09:23 (CET) Jeff Huang wrote:
> Hi,
> I prefer setting up a managed instance by our sysadmins (when they have
> less workload of course),

Yeah. I like that idea too. But, at the same time, I do not want to overload 
the sysadmins.

> maybe we can check debian.social how they do?

Good idea.

> 
> Regards,
> Jeff
> 
> Paul Brown <[email protected]> 於 2021年1月30日 週六 下午8:49 寫道：
> 
> > Hello Fellow Promoers,
> > 
> > Talking of videos the other day reminded me of our current PeerTube
> > strategy:
> > we haven't got one.
> > 
> > We did have one, but it went away when the hosting service we were using
> > (peertube.mastodon.host) disappeared and did not come back.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, as long as we don't put up and maintain our own PeerTube
> > instance, we have to rely on the charity of others. These "others" are
> > usually
> > small outfits, often even individuals, that can disappear at short or no
> > notice
> > for any number of reason -- which is what happened with
> > peertube.mastodon.host.
> > 
> > To ensure they will be able to cope with storage and traffic, they often
> > specialise, such is the case of TILVids (https://tilvids.com). TILVids is
> > willing to put up things like our tips and tutorials, but balked at our
> > suggestion of  uploading  also many hours of conference talks. For that,
> > they
> > pointed us to https://conf.tube/, specialised in conferences and where,
> > it
> > seems, someone has already set up a KDE account -- which we would have to
> > take
> > over.
> > 
> > This would still leave us with the problem as to where to post our purely
> > promotional videos, like for Plasma announcements or teasers and stuff
> > like
> > that.
> > 
> > The third option is to go with something like libre.video, which has a
> > much
> > more laissez-faire approach to content, allowing content from
> > conspiracy-nuts,
> > QAnon, nazis, anti-vaxxers and all sorts of scummy Internet low-life... I
> > think I made a list where all items are identical.
> > 
> > To summarise, our options are:
> > 
> > - Try and convince sysadmins to set up a KDE managed PeerTube instance
> > (awesome, but it feels unfair to increase their workload)
> > 
> > - Split our media over several instances (TILVid, Conf.tube, etc.)
> > 
> > - Go with the crazies
> > 
> > - Do nothing, use YouTube and/or just put videos on our CDN
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Paul
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