Large Video Files & The Fediverse
My little corner of the fediverse is currently on a cherrypick server. Love it. We are a very small group, though, and the admin is fizzling. Not trying to add large videos to the pile. Is everyone just doing PeerTube to upload vids? Anyone have a favorite PeerTube instance or another suggestion?
I figure it's a dick move to upload your videos here and so I don't because I don't want somebody to have to host all that data.
Yea same
I like small instances too, they feel more like a community. Unfortunately, most of the ones I've been on have shut down.
Now I try to look for an instance that takes donations. To me that means they take their job seriously, and they're not just doing it as a hobby or for learning experience.
For Lemmy, Mastodon, etc it probably doesn't matter, your messages will still be available if your instance disappears overnight. But with Peertube, try to go with a big, well established instance. Right now I have to re-post my videos to a new instance since libre.video kicked the bucket last year.
Excellent. Thanks for the helpful input.
What is a cherrypick server?
It's a fork of Misskey, I believe. And I think the dev is Korean? It's a nicely laid out microblogging platform that runs on activitypub. Makes cute little noises. Has all kinds of lists to organize things. I love it.
https://cherrypick.fediverse.observer/list https://chai.aozora.uk/ <---- an example https://github.com/noridev/azpick
@melp@beehaw.org There's this Lemmy post on !peertube@lemmy.wtf listing generic well-federated instances, but if you don't care about the ability to follow other PeerTube channels from it, I'm pretty sure you can use pretty much any instance and it doesn't really matter.
Ironically my CherryPick instance used to have it's own Peertube instance, but they've closed it sadly
Oh that's good advice and really too bad to hear about your instance. There's not that many CherryPick out there. So neat to meet another user. We gotta figure out how to get our little hub hosted out of the US.
