PeerTube v7.1 Is Out
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·March 18, 2025flas9sd
StevenNunez
Kind of a pain to find but it's essentially `https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCY1kMZp...` and you swap out the channel ID.
To find the channel ID: 1. Visit the creator's page 2. Click on `more` for the full description 3. Scroll down to `Share Channel` 4. Click and copy Channel ID
A bit of a pain but I'm glad I know this now!
presto8
This bookmarklet will show the RSS feed URL in an alert window:
Original Source: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/116549
javascript: (() => {
for (var arrScripts = document.getElementsByTagName('script'), i = 0; i < arrScripts.length; i++) {
if (arrScripts[i].textContent.indexOf('externalId') != -1) {
var channelId = arrScripts[i].textContent.match(/\"externalId\"\s*\:\s*\"(.*?)\"/)[1];
var channelRss = 'https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=' + channelId;
var channelTitle = document.title.match(/\(?\d*\)?\s?(.*?)\s\-\sYouTube/)[1];
alert('The rss feed of the channel \'' + channelTitle + '\' is:\n' + channelRss);
break;
}
}
})();BiteCode_dev
Framasoft is really an amazing team. They are basically the reason I discovered FOSS when I was younger.
The fact they are still here and supporting so many free services is a miracle.
blackeyeblitzar
I like the idea of a decentralized Google free YouTube. But I find these posts about PeerTube, Frama, Mastodon, protocols, etc just very confusing. And it’s hard to understand how everyday people can use this platform or it is even meant for that. Years after first hearing of this, it has gone nowhere.
I know this is a negative take but does someone have an explanation or an understanding of whether this project means anything from a practical standpoint?
Beretta_Vexee
They don't have a plan to conquer the world, a business plan, or anything else. They're just FOSS developers doing stuff that interests them. The majority of framasoft developers are French and European teachers and academics.
Framasoft is the antithesis of y-combinator.
Sometimes they reach a wide audience, like framapad and framadate, which are quite popular in France and Western Europe. Partly because they just work and don't require you to create an account.
Sometimes nobody really knows who it's for.
Most of the time people often mistakenly think it's an isofunctional 1:1 alternative to another product. When it's not.
liotier
> it’s hard to understand how everyday people can use this platform
Because they are not platforms: they are software, free to use. Their audience is systems administrators, not users.
Either the user is it's own systems administrator, or someone else has to do it... And in any case there is infrastructure to be paid for. Most users currently prefer someone else to do it and the price to be the watching of advertisements.
I believe a sweet halfway point is hosting cooperatives - not free of cost, but delivering user-control at a reasonable cost to users who do not wish to take on the burden of sysadmining.
chneu
A lot of this is about control over your information.
It isn't about being on YouTube. It's about being able to share your media/information in a way that you feel comfortable.
These projects are for people to explore self hosting or creating a platform based around the ideology the software respects.
I personally self host nearly all my stuff. I'm a photographer/videographer/tech contractor and it allows me full control over my ecosystem without sacrificing my data.
The folks running these aren't really interested in building a big social network or spending hours everyday scrolling what other people are doing.
butz
Some youtubers are posting their videos to Peertube based video sites, like makertube.net , tilvids.com , tinkerbetter.tube , just to name a few. Please share your favorite Peertube instances. Sure, there are way less videos to choose from compared to youtube, but that leaves more time for productivity or for time away from the screen.
admiralrohan
Why didn't I hear about this earlier? Strange.
riffic
The 7.1 version was just released today.
iLoveOncall
In summary: because it sucks.
All the software from FramaSoft is built from the point of view that "FOSS" is all they need and they can ignore everything else.
This means that the UX for all of their tools is not just subpar compared to alternatives, it is borderline unusable.
Peertube specifically is unusable, has no content and has no incentive for content creators.
liotier
> Peertube specifically is unusable, has no content and has no incentive for content creators
Peertube users do not need content nor incentives: they just want to publish their videos and post links to them to their audience.
My photo gallery doesn't need content nor incentives for content creators either... I supply the content and my content creator incentive is showing my vacation pictures to my friends !
iLoveOncall
PeerTube is specifically advertised as a YouTube replacement.
hagbard_c
> Peertube specifically is unusable, has no content and has no incentive for content creators.
I've been using it since its release and it has been usable since then. It certainly has content, i.e. the content I put on it. I run three sites for different purposes, all from the same server which also hosts dozens of other services. The incentive for the 'content' (a disgusting concept if I can be so bold, as if its role is comparable to that of ballast on a ship instead of being the reason the ship sets sail in the first place) creator - which is me for the first site, others for the other two - is that I get to distribute video and audio without getting censored, without advertisements, without data leeches trying to profile viewers while still being able to reach across the world from that server-under-the-stairs.
EcommerceFlow
I've always wondered, why doesn't ISIS or other terror groups just use this type of distribution for their videos?
poulpy123
Because nobody will see them. Moreover the instance that host them will be blocked by the main nodes as much as on any mainstream social network and managing a server is more work and more risk than buying a pirates account to post
Nextgrid
Because it turns out hosting even terrorist videos on existing platforms (and dealing with takedowns, etc) is still a better user experience than using the "fediverse".
> .. improves support for Podcast 2.0, allowing users to subscribe to channels and play the video audio stream (if available) using classic podcast applications
that refers to https://podcasting2.org/podcast-namespace
A youtube channel url provides a rss link too, but it's not advertised much and you need a player that can extract the audio stream. I often yt-dl the audio from talks/interviews, but it could be easier.
The v7 interface came out nice, for examples see https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances?sort=-version&p...