Hot take: Most PeerTube instances shouldnāt just hand out accounts to anyoneāand hereās the reality check. Running a PeerTube server isnāt like YouTube. Thereās no trillion-dollar corporation footing the bill. Instead, small community admins juggle:
The major points are:
- Storage costs (video files add up fast!)
- Moderation work (spam, trolls, and legal risks)
- Bandwidth limits
- Abuse handling (because yes, people will test boundaries) Yet, a lot of sign-up requests sound like (at least from what I see on my instance):
āI wanna upload videos.ā āIām starting a Roblox channel.ā
Sorry, but thatās not enough. Admins arenāt obligated to give free hosting to strangers. A good admin looks for people who:
- Fit the communityās vibe (e.g., a coding-focused instance wonāt host gaming streams).
- Show effortālike sharing a portfolio or explaining why their content adds value.
Example: If you applied with a sample of your work or a clear plan? Hell yes, Iād consider you. But if your pitch is just āI want free hosting,ā why should the community foot the bill?
TL;DR: PeerTube isnāt a free-for-all. āI just wanna upload stuffā isnāt a good reason. Bring something to the table.
No. Its no different if you make a peertube or a mastodon account just to interact with videos. More importabtly, you can interact with more instances because on peertube, federation is opt in while on mastodon it is opt out.
So no, you download mastodon app or visit a mastodon website, make an account (which is better than corpo media anyway) and interact with peertube the same as you would otherwise with a peertube account.
But you canāt log in to peertube with you mastodon account. You can only interact with the video, or channel via Mastodon.
Is there a way to create playlist or have as watch it latter with a mastodon account?
Not sure about that one, honestly. But youvcan always just make an account on peertube if you absolutely want to.
But if you just want to use PeerTube, using Mastodon just introduces extra steps.
Not really. You make an account either way and you can just follow creators on mastodon just the same.
Wouldnāt you need to use PeerTube to discover and search for content? So you have would to go back and forth between PeerTube and Mastodon.
So obviously, if you just want to consume videos, itās the best experience to use PeerTube.
Not necessarily. You can search and subscribe to peertube channels and get notified about new videos on mastodon. All this stuff is new and massively underfunded so of course comparing it to billion dollar projects is naive.
I I donāt want to use Mastodon like I donāt want to use Twitter then thatās an extra step that would better to not have.
Well, you dont have to. Just make an account on some peertube server and be done with it?