[Frameworks] Peertube for experimental filmmaking?

[Florian Cramer]

Hello everyone,

Apologies for being only a very occasional contributor to this list. I may
not be the only person who wonders about a suitable online video
service/streaming platform for my own film and video work. Like many of us,
I currently host it on Vimeo (currently 315 videos...), but would rather
like to leave that company and platform, for several reasons:
- It has become poorly maintained and is no more oriented towards or caring
about film/video makers (which its management explicitly stated in a letter
to shareholders from February 2022: "Today we are a technology platform,
not a viewing destination. We are a B2B solution, not the indie version of
YouTube");
- It is and has always been a for-profit company that runs all its services
on Amazon's AWS cloud servers and (environmentally harmful) data centers,
contributing to Jeff Bezos' fortune.

The alternative cannot be another corporate service or platform (and
clearly not YouTube), but a community-run non-profit service. This does
actually exist in the form of Peertube. It is, like (the Twitter
alternative) Mastodon, part of the "Fediverse" of Open Source,
volunteer-run social media. I first looked into Peertube in 2019 and
uploaded some of my videos on the server ("instance") I had registered
with, but then this server went offline a few months later because its
operator could no longer afford the bandwidth.

Looking back at Peertube in 2022, it seems to have considerably matured and
offer a decent streaming quality. As always with Fediverse services, the
question is which instance/server is most suitable. Using
Peertube's instance search tool (
https://joinpeertube.org/instances#instances-list), I couldn't easily find
one that was oriented towards "our" kind of moving image making.

So my question is: Do other people here have experiences with Peertube and
can recommend friendly servers/'instances'? Or are there even Peertube
instances run by people from the Frameworks community?

Florian


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