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meldrik , 19 days ago

This is a setting by the admin of that Pixelfed instance. Try another instance, if you are unhappy with the quality.

meldrik , 18 days ago

Not natively in Pixelfed.

meldrik , 18 days ago

Also consider that Instagram uses aggressive image compression and then you import from that to Pixelfed, which also does its own compression. No wonder the quality is questionable.

Have you tried adding an original image to Pixelfed?

meldrik , 1 month ago

You can disable P2P.

You will only see content from other instances, if your instance federates with them.

However, some instances allow “global search”, which means you can practically find everything through search, from all the other instances.

It’s also possible to subscribe to channels from other instances, even though your instance does not federate with said instance.

If you go to the About > Network page, you can see which instances is federated with yours.

meldrik , 1 month ago

This is how the settings look like for a PeerTube admin, regarding global search and subscribing to remote channels:

https://lemmy.wtf/pictrs/image/096c6369-29f1-4b65-bd6c-c5eada44cbc0.jpeg

meldrik , 1 month ago

https://lemmy.wtf/pictrs/image/4ed40aff-f8b0-47d0-94e6-b3f6aa306acc.jpeg

Look for this, under the about page of the instance.

meldrik , 1 month ago

Who need that much storage on their phone? Honestly asking.

meldrik , 1 month ago

That make sense. Thanks.

meldrik , 1 month ago

What do you use all that storage for?

meldrik , 1 month ago

Thanks. That sounds pretty cool.

meldrik , 1 month ago

Discord. And no, Matrix/Element isn’t an alternative.

meldrik , 1 month ago

It’s missing voice channels.

I didn’t know about Revolt. It sounds awesome and does indeed look like a Discord clone, but while you can self host it, instances can’t communicate with each other. The devs of Revolt actually recommend NOT to self host.

Signed up for Revolt, but still waiting for the email confirmation…

meldrik , 1 month ago

That doesn't look like voice channels to me, like in Discord?

meldrik , 1 month ago

A major reason that Windows is “popular” is because it’s pre-installed on desktops and laptops. Users don’t have a choice when they go to the store to buy a laptop for doing banking stuff or save pictures from their old camcorder.

It’s the same way with browsers. IE was “popular”, but only because that was the browser that was pre-installed on Windows. The IE browser was complete shit.

meldrik , 1 month ago

That's not the segment I am talking about. I'm talking about "regular folks", who know nothing about IT, but need a laptop for whatever reason. Checking their bank, mail... That's the majority of Windows users. Not the PC builder. They probably don't even know what "Windows" is, if you asked them.

If Linux were pre-installed on PC's, most people wouldn't even notice a difference, because all they need is a browser and maybe an office suite, for very simple work.

meldrik , 1 month ago

What needs to happen is that all the laptop makers, HP, Lenovo Acer etc. start having Linux pre-installed on their laptops in the stores. That probably won't happen, as I imagine that Microsoft pays these companies to sell their laptops with Windows on them.

meldrik , 1 month ago

What's your issue with Cider, if you don't mind me asking?

meldrik , 1 month ago

I think you are partially right, but I think the only reason Windows is easier for the user, is because they are pre-exposed to Windows.

If you took someone, who has zero knowledge of any OS or its GUI, I honestly doubt that Windows would be better.

It’s the same if you take a person who has only known MacOS their whole life and ask them to navigate in Windows… or vice versa… You won’t see positive results.

meldrik , 5 months ago

It’s going to be awesome when we get an official PeerTube app for Android and iOS!

meldrik , 5 months ago

Well, the OPi Zero 3 only has USB 2, which is slow.

You could attach something like this: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403740942791?hash=item5e00d5e1…

Don’t expect it to be fast.

meldrik , 5 months ago

Who are they?

meldrik , 5 months ago

No, you cannot.

meldrik OP , 5 months ago

Time will tell 😁

meldrik , 5 months ago

It really should.

meldrik , 5 months ago

You can already see how many posts and comments users make. Isn’t that the same?

meldrik , 5 months ago

True, could be nice to see data on content consumers, and not just the content creators.

meldrik , 5 months ago

That’s crazy! User/month goes from only 7.5k active to 27.8k. And that’s just people voting. What about people who only read a post?

meldrik , 5 months ago

Wouldn’t you need a publically available IP? DuckDNS is only for dynamic IP’s that is public, yes?

meldrik , 5 months ago

Data send via HTTP is not encrypted. That’s bad.

meldrik , 5 months ago

Yea, that is also what I thought. To bypass this, you would need something like Cloudflare Tunnels or setup a VPN on a VPS, that redirects traffic to your homeserver.

meldrik , 5 months ago

My only wish is that they support sharing bandwidth without having to host a peertube instance.

Remote runners for transcoding video already exists, so I think it’s plausible that we could get something for redundancy / help with bandwidth as well.

Bandwidth is just not really that big of an issue on PeerTube. If multiple people are watching is watching the same video, they share bandwidth and lots of PeerTube instances have redundancy enabled.

A much bigger issue is storage.

What’s even worse, they are removing the possibility to share bandwidth without hosting a peertube instance:

Hardly any instance uses webtorrent, as HLS provides a much better viewing experience. HLS also support P2P.

meldrik , 5 months ago

You’re missing the point: if I want to contribute bandwidth, I need to host an instance or watch the exact same video somebody else is watching.

That’s why I said we can hope they expand on the remote runners, so that people can easily install a runner that could share bandwidth. Just like now we have runners, that are very easy to install, that can transcode videos.

Finding a nice video on some random instance but being unable to watch it because it can only provide 100KB/s or worse says you’re wrong.

Bandwidth is not one of the bigger issues with PeerTube and that’s coming from someone who hosts a PeerTube instance. Obviously you will have issues, if you host PeerTube on a slow internet connection.

meldrik , 5 months ago

Which instances have you looked at? Most of the big instances federate with others. Except for Tilvids.com. You can still subscribe to other channels though.

meldrik , 5 months ago

Take a look at this list: instances.joinpeertube.org/instances?sort=totalVi…

Sort by most followings and select the first with signups.

meldrik , 5 months ago

I would recommend you use this list: instances.joinpeertube.org

You should use an instance that has enabled global search and uses search.joinpeertube.org. This way, you can find content, even though the instances is not federated.

Also, TILvids and Blender Videos are instances for specific videos, for “general purpose” instances to follow. Most of the above instances also use very old versions of PeerTube. We are at verison 6.0 now. So I think they might be inactive, therefore not following more instances.

Here’s an instance that does follow spectra.video > peertube.wtf (my instance), but I also only follow a select few instances, because there is a lot of crap being uploaded to the videoverse and that just makes for a worse experience.

There is nothing however that would keep you from searching for or following any channel, on peertube.wtf because global search is enabled.

meldrik , 5 months ago

There’s The Linux Experiment on PeerTube.

meldrik , 5 months ago

Can’t say if federation will work, but it should run just fine without it on I2P.

meldrik , 5 months ago

Thank you for your awesome work, @Framasoft! I especially think storyboards is a really nice QoL feature.

However, how do I keep it from using all CPU cores, when creating the storyboard? 😅

meldrik , 5 months ago

The easiest would be to use Cloudflare Tunnels. It is also free.

meldrik , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

I illegally downloaded this video to my PeerTube instance. The guy is gonna come kick down my door, any minute now.

meldrik , 6 months ago

You can also use c/community.

meldrik , 6 months ago

I call communities for “comms”.

Sublemmy could also be used.

A sublemmy. Multiple sublemmies.

meldrik , 6 months ago

Why does P2P suck? It’s not bandwidth that’s the issue, it’s storage.

meldrik , 6 months ago

Does anyone know if it’s possible to setup I2P on a local server and then point to that, when setting up the proxy settings in Firefox from your PC?

meldrik , 6 months ago

Thanks, that sounds awesome. This would also allow me to run I2P 24/7, helping the network, instead of having my PC run all the time.

meldrik , 7 months ago

What PeerTube lacks is content creators. There is tilvids.com, but a lot of the content is just mirrored from YouTube and running a PeerTube instance can be expensive.

meldrik , 7 months ago

Their problem is that they allowed themselves to become too big and unsustainable in the long run.