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rigelk commented on PeerTube v6 framablog.org/2023/11/28/... · Posted by u/p4bl0

tetris11 · 2 years ago

Does it plan to use yggdrasil[0] on ipv6 side of things, or is that not even relevant?

rigelk · 2 years ago

Yggdrasil in the browser? Come on.

rigelk commented on Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups framablog.org/2020/10/27/... · Posted by u/staz

jarofgreen · 5 years ago

I'm very pleased to see this launch, but have one feature request - and I'm posting it here because it's a request I would make to anyone doing event software.

Please have open feeds in iCal format for your site, including one that lets people get all public data.

This will make the data on your website so much more reusable and useful.

And definetly iCal - it's so popular, and most personal calendars can even import it directly.

Yes, it's odd text format is a pain, but there are libraries in almost every language you can use.

Mobilizon has iCal export for a single event, but not for all public events on the site. (I did have a Mastodon chat with them about this but can't find their replies now)

But definitely congrats to Framasoft for this :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar

rigelk · 5 years ago

please fill an issue on the forge at https://framagit.org/framasoft/mobilizon/-/issues

rigelk commented on PeerTube: A ‘Censorship’ Resistent YouTube Alternative torrentfreak.com/peertube... · Posted by u/otini

tyfon · 8 years ago

Any peertubers here doing let's plays?

I have some on youtube, but it's just a hobby and I don't monetise it, but because of that I have a feeling that it's being scored lower in the youtube ranks.

However I have not seen any dedicated let's play peertube hubs and most only have a tiny allotment of upload space. There is one with unlimited, https://peertube.social/, however I'm not confident that it will stay that way and I'm not sure how happy they would be if I started uploading terrabytes of video.

Does anyone know of hubs specifically for this sort of content?

rigelk · 8 years ago

There is https://videos.lecygnenoir.info/about - you can contact him on https://miaou.drycat.fr/@lecygnenoirgame

Not sure he still has slots open though

rigelk commented on PeerTube: A ‘Censorship’ Resistent YouTube Alternative torrentfreak.com/peertube... · Posted by u/otini

jameslk · 8 years ago

PeerTube exposes the IPs of all viewers who watch videos[0]. This is a privacy issue that's baked into its design. For example, this allows for anyone to track the content viewing history of IPs. I see this being a big hurdle for any mainstream adoption.

0. https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/316

rigelk · 8 years ago

You can also deactivate WebRTC and get a direct HTTP streaming fallback.

rigelk commented on PeerTube: A ‘Censorship’ Resistent YouTube Alternative torrentfreak.com/peertube... · Posted by u/otini

buovjaga · 8 years ago

See also https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/685 for discussion on implementing webtorrent over i2p

rigelk · 8 years ago

Technically it's to provide an opt-out switch in the interface. It's being developped and will land in the stable.

rigelk commented on PeerTube: A decentralized video hosting network, based on free software joinpeertube.org/en/... · Posted by u/programLyrique

nathcd · 8 years ago

> and anyway provides a fallback to direct streaming (HTTP), so that any browser can interact.

Ah, that's awesome. That definitely assuages my fears somewhat.

> [ActivityPub] In no way it defines how you access media.

ActivityStreams (which ActivityPub builds on) does define an attachment property for messages [1]. Is this not a standard mechanism for clients to access ActivityPub media (via the attachment's type and url)?

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-attach...

rigelk · 8 years ago

It is, but I don't see how web browsers would need to interact directly with ActivityPub. That's just a way to settle on a json structure everyone will be using in their web application (that acts as AP client), as is the case in Mastodon.

Here with PeerTube the client interface doesn't interact with AP to watch videos or get them. It just requests the list directly to the server.

rigelk commented on PeerTube: A decentralized video hosting network, based on free software joinpeertube.org/en/... · Posted by u/programLyrique

nathcd · 8 years ago

This is the part that I find somewhat unfortunate about Peertube. This means that only ActivityPub clients that support WebRTC will be able to access Peertube media. Right now, I think this basically means just modern web browsers. It bothers me somewhat that an early, potentially major ActivityPub service is going to limit full functionality to the few existing major web browsers. That's the opposite of what I want from a federated protocol. (Someone correct me if I've got any of this wrong.)

Regardless, Peertube seems awesome, and I hope we keep seeing more and more services built on ActivityPub.

rigelk · 8 years ago

ActivityPub defines federation messages server to server and client to server. It is not a protocol per se, and rather a message exchange standard, which could perfectly be used only between servers, as is the case with federation of videos between PeerTube instances, and more recently for video comment feeds, that can interact with the larger fediverse (Hubzilla and Mastodon so far were tested).

In no way it defines how you access media. That is defined by the use of WebRTC, which is supported by a growing number of browsers, and anyway provides a fallback to direct streaming (HTTP), so that any browser can interact.