This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
It's worth stressing that you can get around Google's totalitarian restrictions by installing PeerTube from F-droid.
If you're on Android, you should probably consider using F-droid whenever possible anyway. Personally I like Droid-ify, which is an F-droid client with a nice interface.
If you're on iPhone, you're out of luck. The EU might eventually come to the rescue of European users. American iPhone users will probably not be surprised to learn that they are shit out of luck.
What am I missing from your comment? iOs can be found here: https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/peertube/id6737834858
In the article, she mentions that the app store version and the Google Play Store version have really strict moderation and are extremely limited due to Google and Apple policies. I actually ended up asking her whether the fdroid version had the same limitations on Mastodon. Although the above comment says it does not. So that's at least encouraging.
Ah, sorry, it's in the context of what Elena Rossini writes about the limitations of the mobile app.
As PeerTube draws content from independent servers, it's hard for them to comply with the content policies of Google and Apple. The PeerTube app you can find in the App Store or Google Play Store therefore only contains content from a very short list of whitelisted PeerTube instances, where Apple or Google have accepted content from these instances to be presented in their app ecosystems.
F-Droid doesn't have such limitations, and as a result the stuff you'll find in the F-Droid app is the same as you'll find in https://sepiasearch.org/ .
Meanwhile, YouTube be like : heil hitler, and that's cool, I guees.
Yeah, it's a little ironic to say the least. I suspect the tech giants are more worried about titties than they are of literal fascism.
I misunderstood your comment. Thank you for the clarification.
Thanks! I had previously downloaded it from the play store and had no idea that's why the search sucked. Uninstalled and re-downloaded from F-droid, works great now!
I mean. I’m generally an app snob and prefer them most of the time. But we also can just use the website. Lots of people visit YouTube simply in a browser on mobile, without the app on any platform.
I hope to be able to use PeerTube more in the future, but at least for now. I can't find the kind of content that I want to watch. I would like to see stuff similar to Android Authority and 9-5 Google. Kind of like how !android@lemdro.id created their own instance and community.
The way I see it, no PeerTube instance is ever going to replace YouTube. That would just be far too much data to store and far too much bandwidth to serve. But I figure there would be topic specific instances such as Android Authority and 9-5 Google on an Android specific PeerTube instance.
Things like Sneed Mobile Tech and Tech Life Channel talking about cellular networking would be on a PeerTube instance dedicated to network technology, and so on.
I don't think it will ever happen, but the way PeerTube as a whole would be able to rival YouTube is when looking at all instances as a whole, or a large number of federated instances sharing content. That distributes the content storage and bandwidth to help ease things up and expand the amount of content available/searchable on each instance. Kind of like how lemm.ee was made to help ease the load from other bigger instances of Lemmy such as lemmy.world. The closest a Fediverse platform has gotten to actually posing some real competition to a mainstream platform was Mastodon compared to Twitter/X, but even then it wasn't just one instance but Mastodon as a whole.
That said, doesn't Bluesky run on something like a federated model?
In theory, yes. Blue Sky does run on a federated model. In practice, no. If the Blue Sky Corporation died, it would be gone. If I remember correctly, all direct messages go through them no matter where you have your home data and such.
Bluesky has its own federated protocol. But you should consider the differences and improvements of the AT Protocol with ActivityPub.
Doesn't seem like many improvements to be had when it takes several terabytes to run one of the aggregators and increasing all the time.
