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Originally Posted by Bladewire
You are telling us there are no negatives.
I don't believe you.
There are always negatives, but you refuse to tell us what they are.
Why would you do that?
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Ok here are the negatives that I think exist with this model.
1. Advertising platforms lose reach as more federated ad free sites pop up. However nothing stops you from running a PeerTube instance with ads, but if you do nobody will federate with you.
2. Sites which won't or can't install SSL will not be able to participate, because to be a part of the networks you need to use SSL.
3. Webmasters who don't have access to a fairly good degree of technical skill won't be able to easily participate because this isn't PHP/MySQL stuff, it's more complex to install and maintain.
4. If you run tube that allows sign ups then you may have to moderate content not just from your tube but from others you federate with, however this is helped by report buttons which send the report to every tube operator in the federation.
5. The PeerTube code base is just out of beta, version 1.1.0 right now, there are still bugs. There's still room for improvement. Going back to number 3, you need good technical skills to get around those.
Other than that I haven't thought of too many other negatives. If you use the PeerTube platform as a content owner you have much more control over the end user experience than if you uploaded it to a commercial tube.
I'm interested to hear what you think some other negatives are, maybe you could list some?
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Originally Posted by JuicyBunny
I like it. Mastodon is pretty cool as well.
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I like the idea of Mastodon, however I haven't had time to set up an instance yet and play with it. Might do that over the break and see precisely how it works from a technical standpoint. I have a Mastodon account on the original Mastodon server but I've never used it.