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I’m biased, but I recommend my own content! :D

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I run TubeFree.org and have created a Peertube chain of trust as well. So I’m pulling in from multiple sources and have an index others can use if they’d like. https://ptindex.btfree.org/

The code is open source so you can also build your own if you’d like. https://git.btfree.org/BTFree/PTIndex

Always looking to add more servers though if anyone has recommendations.

I’ve actually opened a feature request with the Peertube folks. I don’t expect much honestly at the moment. The Peertube folks lay out their plans and they’ve probably don’t that for the foreseeable future, but having this kind of mechanism, and building it out as you’re suggesting, is what I hope that can be built into Peertube some day.

https://github.com/issues/created?issue=Chocobozzz|PeerTube|7493

I can’t do what you’re suggesting at the index level. But it’s totally valid. We need good tools built into Peertube, or an extension or something, to give us that kind of control.

Honestly I want to eventually come out with lists for like Child Friendly or Music or NSFW or whatever.

But right now what you’re suggesting, it’s completely built based on my guidelines and what I want. Places like MakerTube have reached out to me and given me specific servers that aren’t within our guidelines and I’ve removed them manually from our list, but I hope there comes a day where EVERYONE can share their lists and groups.

And I honestly think that there’s a doc going through the Open Social Web group to allow sharing of groups easier, that this might help Peertube as well.

So the ideas are sound, I don’t have the technical chops to do it, and I think it’d take a lot of work, but I absolutely think this is a valid use case and would benefit us all.

The best I can say, make sure to support Peertube however you can, even a $1 a month helps, so maybe we can help them get more folks to move Peertube along even faster.

I’d like to throw my mark in here.

I’m the founder of BT Free a nonprofit 501©3 organization that’s attempting to help foster the Fediverse.

I’ve recently came up with an idea of a public Peertube index. You can see it at https://ptindex.btfree.org/ for anyone to use. My idea is that we could have a chain of trust. I trust MakerTube, MakerTube trusts SERVER, therefore I follow SERVER.

But I’d like more folks at the top to share with everyone.

Together we’ll make our network strong. The PTIndex is public, anyone can use it without contributing, I have a script that’s pulling the data from the folks in the chain of trust at https://git.btfree.org/BTFree/PTIndex .

Steaming platforms have worked for quite a while in Linux. Been a while since I had Netflix, but it worked just fine when I did. Disney+ and Hulu work.

Im no Dev, so I can’t answer any of this.

But there is an active matrix group with LOTS of devs you can talk to: https://matrix.to/#/#fediverse-developer-network:matrix.org

At the moment I’m happily on matrix.org and donating monthly to them. Most of my community is on their own Matrix servers. Outages happen, but most of the time it’s matrix.org that has an issue and the self-hosters are still able to chat and make fun of me. :) In a friendly way.

Encryption keys not syncing also happens. But it seems to be getting less and less. There are different steps for different devices and platforms. Normally leaving a room and rejoining works to resolve. Sucks, but the Matrix group are ACTIVELY trying to hunt these down.

My father is 71. The Element phone install basically walks you through the process. Including which server to connect to. You’d give them yours if you want them on just yours.

Everyone’s situation is different. if you’re interested, try it. See if it works. Maybe it doesn’t. Then stick with Signal. Signal is awesome, but it is far from perfect.

Matrix is awesome, and it’s nowhere near perfect.

Use the tool that works best for you. Some security and encryption is worth it than 0 security and encryption.

I’m not upset. So maybe a good question to ask yourself?

And I didn’t give misinformation. Signal doesn’t allow it. Yes, they exist, and can break at any time.

I personally have Signal. I use Matrix more, but in wouldn’t turn away Signal.

OP asked for information on what gives people pause about Signal. I have gave it. Where is my misinformation? I’d like to know so I can learn as well.

What you personally view as pointless, matters to some people.

That’s for each to decide. If this is a community focused on privacy, as you said, shouldn’t we give everyone the information they asked and not make decisions on what is or is not pointless to them?

It is a fact that Signal is a centralized service. They do not allow federation. They do not allow third party clients. They could decide in the future to turn people accounts off for using third party clients.

I have lived through this numerous times. I don’t trust a centralized service as much as one I can run myself. That’s for each to decide.

Yes. My whole family uses Matrix. Including my parents. And no, they’re not technical at all. Father, step mother, sister, wife.

And yes I can give someone a link to join me on matrix.

Installing Element has become super easy IMO.

And signal can decide to break them if they want. You think it’s pointless, but yet you’re spending energy fighting a point that is pointless to you?

That’s a third party software list created by someone not Signal and basically tells you it’s a work around to Signal:

“Signal does not have an official API, and the published code requires additional effort to be used outside of the official signal clients.”

So I’m not certain the point of the link. There are still clients for Reddit and YouTube and others that are third party and aren’t official. Signal doesn’t support those.

They don’t allow third party clients.

They are open source, and you can run your own, but it won’t ever be allowed to connect to the standard signal server.

Signal has a piece they say is for fighting spam so they can’t release the code to it. So you just have to trust them.

https://signal.org/blog/keeping-spam-off-signal/

“We build Signal in the open, with publicly available source code for our applications and servers. To keep Signal a free global communication service without spam, we must depart from our totally-open posture and develop one piece of the server in private: a system for detecting and disrupting spam campaigns”

Signal is not perfect. It’s better than most.

I personally use Matrix as I can go to another server or run my own. I run multiple clients. It is NOT perfect and has it’s own issues.

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ActivityPub, aka the Fediverse, aka the open social web, aka what powers Piefed, is created, built by and built into the web, run by the W3C.

So while I agree that DRM sucks being built into the web, I disagree W3C is controlled by GAFAM. With DRM the W3C’s point was that everyone is doing it anyway at least we can have a standard way to doing it, making it easier for ends users to not have to jump through some new hoop and guaranteeing even that on alternative browsers, software or hardware aren’t excluded.

Big Tech do plenty of awful things we can give them direct credit for. W3C isn’t really one of them.

Another one bites the dust!

I’ve caught a few as well.

If you remember the names, please let me know.

Definitely not interested in that and I’ve already removed some from the index.

Awesome! Which server is yours? We all need to get together as Peertube Adkins and figure out more things we can do to help the ecosystem! :-)

Awesome! Let me know if there’s any quality servers you think I should be pulling in. What’s your server?

Also please don’t hesitate to let me know if you find any unsavory things. While I can remove it from the index, you’d have to manually remove it from your server.

What’s your instance?

I used to follow the main one, but learn quickly that if I wanted a public instance, that’d get me into a lot of trouble. There’s a LOT of awful out there.

It might not scale vertically, but it scales horizontally.