I'm fairly sure Peertube is a bit more distributed due to the storage requirements that come with video. And while we can all chip in a few hundred Gigabytes and add lots of smaller instances, it'd be hard for an entity to finance something like a default instance. I'd expect it to be a few hundred bucks per month and 10,000 users. So that becomes less of a hobby and a proper job. And it needs to be paid or someone needs to make sure a lot of donations come in and manage all of that more like a business.
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2025
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A free software to take back control of your videos
Peertube is an open, federated alternative to Youtube without advertising or tracking. On this site, you can find a good Peertube instance, with good rules, good moderation and most importantly a friendly community.
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So like https://fedi.video/? It gives a curated taste of best of federated video, only downsides are no public accounts.
https://tubefree.org/ allows open registration but doesn't have as curated (mainstream newbie friendly) of a feed, and also doesn't allow uploads.
If you are a content creator you really should join a topical instance or selfhost.
That being said, yes it'd be great if an instance like peertube.wtf would exist with a mainstream friendly domain. My understanding is peertube.wtf is self funded by its owner (with some help from donations) but that's hard to find a patreon like that.
@meldrik@lemmy.wtf
Tubefree.org that's me! Open registration, yup. But as we're a moderated instance, and only funded by me atm, yes uploads are limited. I've allowed folks to upload on a person by person basis. Someone wamted to upload copyrighted material, I can't take that risk.
I'm more than happy to host all kinds of things though. Folks just need to ask. :-)
This wouldn’t mean centralizing PeerTube
Yes, it would. It always does.
Yes, PT would genuinely attract more interest with a couple of big instances: just like here on Lemmy, it has proven to be a great push for growing as a platform.
I like peertube.wtf name, every instance starting with peertube in the name is enough attractive IMO, the real problem are other aspects like funds and reliability.
I personally have no issues with the .wtf branding, I just personally think that it's not that good for a potential flagship style server.
The only issue is server resources. Who is going to pay to host a free service for video? Lemmy has moderate requirements, however if each post was a video the requirements would be many times greater.
I tried posting a Peertube.wtf link in a forum and it wouldn't let me. No matter what I tried (BBcode, plain URL, code block), the 3-letter string "wtf" was always replaced with "confused".
Have you ever considered letting @meldrik@lemmy.wtf know about it?
They run .wtf
Just to make sure that it wasn't a potential issue on wtf's end?
It's definitely a forum filter, as the substitution occurs even in the posting preview window, and also when using those three letters not in that or any other URL.