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PeerTube is a project that is similar to Pixelfed in a lot of ways, it has a lot of really clever engineering under the hood, but it was held back by the lack of official mobile apps.
Glad to see them working on official apps, and I have no doubt we will see the same type of surge that Pixelfed has seen, once their app is polished and easier to use.
Long form video platforms like PeerTube and short form platforms like Loops compliment each other, and encourage interop between our projects
@dansup In general having a polished mobile app does help user growth, I don't think PeerTube has been "held back" by the lack of just a good app.
As for "surges" as experienced in Mastodon and Pixelfed, you know perfectly well it's not just about the quality of these platforms/products.
Personally I think PeerTube is fine where it is right now, but if you want to define it's success by metrics, then PeerTube's biggests problems are:
- YouTube
- Storage costs
- Content quality
@dansup Furthermore, what people tend to forget in their usual X vs. Y mindset, is that from a long-form video attention economy/space perspective PeerTube is also up against all the streaming giants like Netflix, Twitch, etc.
I think one thing that held further adoption of @peertube back is that almost every fedizen when passing along a vid in a toot, uses the copied/pasted vid URL inline in toot text.
Almost no one take the 2sec. to look up the URL in their Mastodon or other microblogging client, and *directly* interacts on the video, by liking and adding interesting discussion threads below these videos (and imagine all the cool cross-refs to recommneded other vids that could be made here).
in calmness @smallcircles@social.coop@frankstrater @dansup @peertube
Other than that.. I started calling current AS/AP fedi the "as soon as possible" fediverse, where necessarily early app implementations served as the de-facto reference implementations for the #W3C #ActivityStreams and #ActivityPub open standards.
At serious cost: Ever increasing #ProtocolDecay and subsequent #WhackaMoleAdoption i.e. retaining app-by-app interop pipes against moving release targets.
When is Video domain getting standardized? That's my question.
@smallcircles @frankstrater @dansup @peertube great idea! I'll see about getting a task force started for it in the #SocialCG.