Still undecided about #PeerTube. I'd really like to use it as a creator, but apparently non of the interesting Instances allow for account registration directly.
Then there's some for artistic content that downscale all videos to 720p. I mean, WTF, it's almost 2025 and this is a sure way to scare off people doing serious video work. Even my old camera from 2018 that bought used for 260€ records 4k.
We talk a lot about how the #Fediverse is a good place and not suffering #enshittification like #YouTube, but after approx. 3hrs of looking at user uploads as well as terms and conditions of server instances, I'm at the Houston point:
We have a problem.
@nielso specifically, one problem is that any distributed system involves overhead, necessarily. It trades efficiency and resource usage for advantages of being distributed.
So the problem is how do you take an already inefficient system and use it for relatively resource intensive media like video content? It's bad enough trading text around, but video increases resource requirements exponentially.
It's a hard problem to solve, and it's not one that ActivityPub seemed really focused on addressing. So in the end this is a technical issue that the underlying technology of this platform isn't really cut out for video.
