@oct2pus It's a young federated platform. Video view counts are expected to be low.

I also noticed that it felt like a big jumble of incoherent videos.

@ajroach42 i think if it worked on curation and categorizing it'd be a big plus. I'm kinda hoping it doesn't just become a dumping place of far right content makers. One thing I really like about mastodon is a focus on administrating an specific experience rather than on "freezepeach".

@oct2pus I mean, as a decentralized platform, some instances might become dumping grounds for far right content, but many others don't have to be.

I am hoping for profiles, greater fediverse integration, and a focus on curation and metadata.

It's still early days, and I'm hopeful that the platform will evolve in to something worth seeing.

@ajroach42 i understand that, but with poor controls on how this is done as well as how content is curated it can vastly change public perception of what the platform is aiming to achieve. I'm not really against them 'on the platform' (at least more than my own blanket disdain for nazis and their ilk) but they definitely should be regulated to their own little corner where they can brood among their selves.

im interested though and i got the same wish list as you.

@oct2pus @ajroach42 Still trying to understand #peertube better. What does it take to become a seeder and help out? Just loading a video in the web browser? Actually installing an instance on a server? Something in-between?

@Blort @oct2pus It seeds videos over webRTC, as you are streaming you are also seeding.

If a video has one watcher, it streams directly from the server.

If it has two videos, it splits the load between the server and the watchers.