There's a brilliant video platform on the Fediverse called PeerTube. You can follow and interact with PeerTube accounts from Mastodon, you only really need a PeerTube account if you want to publish videos.
You can search and browse PeerTube safely and easily at:
Realized that #peertube isn’t the best place to post the Quick #vlog items since they’re time-sensitive. Let me know if you can think of a #fediverse platform or service that would be good for short video!
Like a federated multimedia/e-learning Wikipedia with lessons and resources for the topics of day-to-day life we might take for granted, but which are obstacles for the newcomer.
"How do I navigate the transit system in Fredericton, New Brunswick?" or
"How to shave?" or
"How to do income taxes/get ID/vote/find non-profits in [insert territory]?"
Simple but complete video lesson(s) provided via #peertube including all accessibility features
I suppose I should post something introductory now that I'm on my own instance.
I'm a Linux lady who used to work in COBOL development and assorted legacy systems management gigs.
Nowadays I make videos and occasional blog posts about Linux and vintage/retro tech. Entirely supported by viewers like you (no sponsors as of writing). Links in bio.
Today was the first day of a three-day off period I took from work as a late birthday … thing, for myself. But, the first thing I did when I woke up, was I jumped onto my PC and started writing a guide to ActivityPub. Why did I do this? Well …
There are a lot of misconceptions about AP, and Mastodon in-general. I see people saying things like, “It’s too hard,” or, “I don’t want one account for everything!” The latter is a misunderstanding, and the former is only a matter of having the information you need right in front of you.
ActivityPub software, be it Mastodon, Peertube, Pixelfed–they all have “join” pages, but there isn’t much in the way of connecting them all together onto one page, so someone can find them all and look at them, and read them, and maybe even learn a few things about AP and all the software that revolves around it.
So, I solved that problem … a little bit, today. And I hope it helps someone relieve their fear about jumping in, and getting at least somewhat away from the corporate slog of having ads constantly shoved in their faces while everything they write and create is scraped for soulless bots.
On the topic of ActivityPub, though, I received the unfortunate news that the Peertube instance I’ve been using for a few years are voluntarily winding down their instance due to, and in their own words, “capitalism and climate change.” I’m not entirely sure what they mean by that, but fair game.
In an attempt to keep my presence and my hundred-some videos on the Peertube network, I copied everything to infosec.exchange, and you can follow that account there! (If you want to.)
And, finally, the reason I decided to write that whole guide in order to help people get away from corpo-social-media, is because Meta is in testing on Instagram with unskippable ads. Not specifically on Reels, but just … on the timeline. While you’re scrolling. Like some cheap smartphone app trying to make revenue for its sole developer.
But what this is, is just another display of complete lack of care for the users who populate a piece of software in favor of the already fat wallets of investors, and advertisers. After a long six months of hearing and reading that generative AI is all about investors, I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m sick and tired of whoever these investors and advertisers are, thinking they can just destroy all of the internet as we know it … for a couple bucks.
And that’s why it’s time to leave that behind. Maybe not all at once. Maybe in baby steps. But, the most important first step, is to try.
Try to take back some of your identity, and ownership of your own data. If you can’t vote with your wallet, vote with your presence, and leave these apps, and developers, to destroy their software in peace. Since most of these corporations seem hell-bent on burning down the internet … for no reason.
Mal eine Frage an die #peerTube Bubble, wenn ich meine Inhalte neben YT und Spotify auch in PeerTube anbieten soll, welche Instance würde sich für deutschsprachige TTRPG Inhalte anbieten? Ich finde die Liste der bisherigen Instanzen schwierig ein Entscheidung zu treffen und mir den Akt mehrere hundert Videos zu reuploaden geben. #pnpde
Seht ihr in sozialen Medien auch immer wieder Fake Klimagrafiken zum Temperaturverlauf der Erdgeschichte? Mein re:publica Vortrag "Die Klimadebatte - Zwischen Wissenschaft, Querdenkern & Populisten" erklärt diesen und weitere Tricks. Ist vom Vorjahr, aber leider gerade sehr aktuell. https://youtu.be/aP-fnv7DINw?si=OYL22-7PuWvnTWBX
@rahmstorf sehr wichtiger Vortrag, danke! Wäre es bitte möglich, solche zentrale Informationen datenschutz- und damit demokratiefreundlich zur Verfügung zu stellen? Ich finde es mehr als irritierend, wenn ich vor deinem Vortrag Anzeigen eingeblendet bekomme, welche mir nahelegen irgendwelche Leberpräparate einzunehmen um mein Bauchfett zu reduzieren.
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Today on Dwarf Fortress: The Sinister Start in the Plane of Myth, my citizens has a sad! 😢
I keep sending them outside to build the outside fort and they are getting fed up. But not to worry, I finished the roof so now they con complete their work in a smelly goo-free environment. Or, at least until I decide to build the fishing hut.
Molly White is one of the most thoughtful writers and thinkers on the web today. In addition to being a high functioning crypto critic, @molly0xfff is a believer and practitioner in crafting the next era of the web.
Molly believes that human connections are an inextricable part of the web and sees a bright future ahead as those connections move from walled gardens to the open web.
Check out this fantastic conversation with her on the latest episode of #DotSocial on our #PeerTube instance or wherever you get your #podcasts.
Someone asked how they can publish videos on PeerTube (the Fediverse's video platform). There's a guide to publishing on PeerTube here, it includes suggestions for where to sign up (and also how to make your own server if you prefer):
This noob is testing the interconnectivity of the #Fediverse:
The word out there on the Fediverse make it seem as if all the different tools (Mastdn/P-tube/Lemmy/etc.) can interact with one another. But this is not the case, as some work both ways, whilst others only one way, or at all.