🎬 PeerTube 8 je venku a přináší novou fičuru — kolaboraci na kanálech!
Domluvte se s přáteli a tvořte obsah společně. 🎉

Co je nového:

Majitel kanálu může pozvat další uživatele instance jako editory

Editoři mohou pozvání přijmout nebo odmítnout

Mohou spravovat videa, playlisty i komentáře

Nová stránka Aktivity ukazuje, co se v kanálu děje

A k tomu @schmaker
vhsky.cz/w/p5LQzSrn1DDZbY8aERv…

připravil video, kde celou novinku ukazuje v praxi. 🎥

#vhsky #peertube #fediverse #oscloud

Some #PeerTube video accounts to follow on assorted topics:

EXERCISE
@3morereps_workouts - Fitness instructor doing exercise & yoga videos

HISTORY
@premodernist - Univ. lecturer on history, from ancient to modern
@athenaproductions - Irreverent/sweary videos about bits of history, philosophy
@historical - Assorted public domain films from history

LANGUAGES
@moosesconlangs - Videos on constructed languages including Esperanto
@robert_riley - Educational videos about basics of English language

Znáte nějakého YouTubera z #YouTube, kterej to nedělá jen pro prachy?

Dostaňte ho k nám na #VHSky a dostanete doživotní #PeerTube premium zdarma! 😀

Co nám ještě chybí?
- #cvičení doma i venku
- #gaming a recenze
- #hudba a klipy
- #věda a technika, "vysvětluje věci"
- více #vaření
- více #DIY
- a vlastně všechno další! 😁

Šiřte, mluvte, zmiňujte. Potřebujem vás

Druhá varianta je "tvořte!" .. budeme rádi 😀

Jak jsme streamovali OpenAlt na Vhsky.cz

Vhsky.cz provozujeme už skoro rok a víme, že dokážeme dobře poskytovat videa na vyžádání, tento víkend jsme si ale ukázali, že zvládneme i streamování větší konference. Celá akce nám přinesla velké množství zkušeností, které jsem shrnul v tomto blogovém zápisku.

#konference #OpenAlt #PeerTube #video #YouTube

blog.eischmann.cz/2025/11/03/j…
(reakce na tento příspěvek se může zobrazit jako komentář pod článkem)

Přehrávač na #VHSky teď drží kvalitu rozlišení stabilněji — upravili jsme nastavení segmentů v #PeerTube, takže už by nemělo docházet k přepínání na nižší rozlišení při živých streamech.

Díky všem, co testovali během #OpenAlt2025 💪
#oscloud #opensource #vhsky

Today at 10am (CEST) I will have a short talk (most likely in Czech) on #PeerTube at #OpenAlt2025 which will be streamed on the PeerTube instance Vhsky.cz.
If you'd like to watch, look for A113 once the streams are up on @vhsky.

talks.openalt.cz/openalt-2025/…

#openalt

In cooperation between @vhsky and @openalt we'd like to demonstrate that even a large-scale conference can be live streamed without #YouTube. An initial stress test showed that 7 concurrent streams in multiple resolutions exceeded the capabilities of the server Vhsky.cz runs on (32core i9-13900 and 96 GB RAM).

However, the Fediverse community helps each other. @bycx loaned us a real beast machine which we now use as an external runner for transcoding jobs. It passed today's stress test with flying colors.

Thank you @archos for the work on the runner and @Bashynx on the stress test. Fingers crossed for the next weekend. 🤞

#PeerTube #OpenAlt #OpenAlt2025

#OpenAlt conference program is out. I've got two talks accepted: #Linux Desktop Migration and #PeerTube. I will also help with an #endof10 workshop.
If it isn't too far for you, come to #Brno on Nov 1-2. It is worth it!

openalt.cz/2025/program/

#openalt2025 #conference

@fiskfan1999 @berlinfediday

I am not sure if I misunderstand, but you can paste the URL of your #Peertube vid in the search bar of your own instance, find it, and then boost it. Everyone then gets the actual peertube vid in their timeline and Likes and Comments go to the video.

There is no way in #PeerTube to essentially 'boost' (retweet) a video from another instance, is there?

I want people to be able to go to my PeerTube instance and watch a video that I recommended without leaving my instance but all likes and comments should obviously go to the original source. (And the video itself should obviously be streamed from the original source as well.)

#askfedi #ActivityPub

I like that the video version version of the State of the Thunder pod by @thunderbird is available on TILvids, a PeerTube platform.

State of the Thunder #13: tilvids.com/w/mvHZHm2JXzbrxwMB…

#thunderbird #TILvids #PeerTube #OpenSource #email

📺 PeerTube Co-op FAQ: Building a Member-Owned Alternative to YouTube

The future of video doesn’t belong to platforms. It belongs to people.

We’re building a PeerTube co-op: a member-owned, democratically governed video platform based in BC. No algorithms deciding what matters. No corporate choke points. No waiting for permission.

This is about taking control of the infrastructure, the governance, and the culture—and doing it together.

Why a co-op?

Because co-ops give people ownership, governance rights, and collective resilience. Instead of handing data and control to a platform, members pool resources, share decision-making, and shape policies together.

BC has a strong legal framework for co-operatives, which makes it a natural place to explore this seriously.

Why PeerTube?

PeerTube is federated, open-source, and already battle-tested as a decentralized alternative to YouTube. It’s not perfect—but it provides a solid foundation for a co-op structure to build on top of.

The idea is to pair federated tech with co-operative governance, so neither corporate control nor a single admin dictates the rules.

Who’s behind this?

Right now, this is being organized by me (@atomicpoet) and @Crissy, along with a growing group of interested folks: creators, privacy advocates, security experts, and co-op thinkers from around the world.

We’re still early—think founding conversations, not bylaws and board elections. But the energy is real.

How much does it cost to join?

What follows is the proposed model, not something set in stone. The final structure will be decided by the member-owners once the co-op is formed.

The idea is to keep membership affordable for individuals while ensuring the co-op is financially sustainable from the start—with no ads, no data harvesting, and no outside investors. Just members pooling resources to run the platform together.

• Base membership: C$5.95/month
• Medium tier (10–100 GB/month): +C$3 → C$8.95/month
• Heavy tier (100 GB+): +C$10 → C$15.95/month

At scale, with a typical user mix (80 % base / 15 % medium / 5 % heavy), this works out to about C$6.90 per member per month, which comfortably covers hosting and operational costs.

There’s also a one-time buy-in of C$50, which funds initial setup (domain, CDN deposits, buffer) and helps keep the early months profitable without raising dues. When spread over the first year, that’s roughly C$4.17/month in effective cost coverage.

What happens if the co-op grows faster than expected?

The financial and technical model is step-wise, not linear. As membership increases, transcoding nodes, storage/CDN tiers, and egress commitments scale at defined traffic thresholds.

The co-op’s development will unfold in three phases, with member-owners deciding collectively when to move from one to the next.

Do I need technical skills to participate?

No. Technical expertise is welcome but not required. Governance, policy, communications, creative, and community-building skills are just as valuable. Infrastructure will be professionally managed, with costs shared through dues.

Will the co-op run its own infrastructure or rely on third parties?

The proposal uses managed hosting as a baseline, scaling as membership grows. This provides reliability early on while retaining the ability to self-host more components later.

How will moderation work?

Moderation scales with user base and federation breadth:

• Member reporting and rotating stewards handle first-line triage
• Paid moderation begins once activity reaches 10–15+ hours/week
• Budget estimates: up to C$270/month for ~100 users; part-time moderation (~C$1,755/month) for ~500 users

Will the instance federate with everyone or be selective?

The proposal starts with a curated allowlist of trusted instances to control load.

It will also:

• Adopt shared blocklists as a baseline
• Document defederation criteria and appeals to keep the process transparent

As membership grows, federation posture can be revisited by member-owners.

What’s the timeline for incorporation and launch?

We’re not working toward rigid dates—we’re building deliberately, in three clear phases:

• Phase 1: Formation and groundwork. Incorporation, drafting bylaws, establishing MVP infrastructure, and setting out the core policies (ToS, AUP, takedown).
• Phase 2: Growth and refinement. Expanding membership, activating the hybrid pricing model, introducing stipends, and refining federation posture.
• Phase 3: Maturity and expansion. Adding part-time moderation, building reserves and insurance, and exploring potential expansion into other Fediverse services.

Each phase builds on the last, and decisions about when to transition between them will be made collectively by member-owners.

What drives costs the most?

Egress and bandwidth dominate, not storage. P2P offload reduces egress as viewer concurrency rises, but outbound data remains the biggest expense.

How does the pricing hold up financially?

At as few as five members, the co-op becomes cash-flow positive, and margins scale significantly with growth.

• 100 members → estimated monthly surplus C$587
• 1,000 members → estimated monthly surplus C$6,870

I’ve never been in a co-op before. Will there be guidance?

Yes. The initial bylaws and governance structure will include clear documentation. New members will be onboarded through AGMs, published policies, and transparent reporting, as required under BC Co-operative Association law.

Will you use open-source tools for internal communications?

That will ultimately be up to the member-owners to decide collectively.

For now, tools like Google Docs are being used temporarily to get everyone aligned quickly. Yes, the irony isn’t lost—it’s like holding a union meeting in Jeff Bezos’ living room. But this is just to get the ball rolling, not a long-term choice.

How will governance work?

We’re still defining this collectively, but the plan is to follow BC co-op regulations while ensuring member governance is meaningful, not symbolic. Expect conversations around:

• Founding member structure
• Board or steering committee setup
• Decision-making processes
• Transparency and accountability measures

I’m not a PeerTube user, but I’m interested in the co-op structure. Is that relevant?

Yes—very. Some participants are here primarily because they’re passionate about co-operatives, not necessarily PeerTube. That expertise will be crucial for getting the legal, organizational, and governance frameworks right.

Will non-members be able to watch videos?

Yes. As with most PeerTube instances, most viewing will be public, but uploading and policy decisions are reserved for member-owners. The co-op’s primary responsibility is to its members, while still providing an open and accessible platform for viewers.

What will the co-op be called?

The official name and branding will be chosen collectively by the founding member-owners after incorporation.

How do I get involved or stay informed?

The next step will be setting up an initial coordination space (on open-source infrastructure, if members choose that path) to keep everyone looped in and start shaping this together.

If you want to be kept informed, reach out privately or share your email so you can be included when that happens.

Isn’t this ambitious?

Yes. But the response so far has been incredible. The mix of skills and motivations showing up this early—technical, organizational, privacy, cultural—is exactly what’s needed to make something real.

📝 Closing Thought

This is still early days. But something’s forming—a group of people who see the cracks in the platform world and want to build something better, together.

If that resonates with you, you’re welcome here.

#PeerTubeCoop #PeerTube #Cooperative
RE: atomicpoet.org/objects/2289eb4…

Chris Trottier (@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)

Tired of YouTube calling all the shots? It’s time to build something better—together.Here’s the slide deck for a proposal to launch a PeerTube co-op.Right now, there are three of us ready to get th...

^{atomicpoet.org}

#MakerTube
Ich glaub', diese #PeerTube Instanz passt ganz gut zu mir.

Bin dabei meine Videos neu zu ordnen, vielleicht kommen auch mal wieder neue dazu...

makertube.net/a/alphalab/video…
@alpha_lab_software_technik@makertube.net@alphalab_channel@makertube.net
Vielen Dank an
@MakerTube@mastodon.social

Got (essentially) all my cinematography videos up on my PeerTube! If you want to subscribe to see my videos over there, that would be awesome!

TrentonTube.TrentonHoshiko.com

#Peertube #videoproduction #filmmaking #cinematography

We’re looking into starting a #PeerTube co-op.

Video hosting isn’t cheap—collective ownership could make it far more sustainable.

tech.lgbt/@Crissy/115005696647…

On weekend I managed to connect all my selfhosted services that support it to the #Keycloak #SSO (single sign on).
Namely #Mastodon #Peertube #NextCloud #FreshRSS #Matomo and #grafana

Why to bother with such complication for apps serving only a couple of users?
First it's quite easy nowadays.
And second, because I want to get rid of passwords and just use #passkeys .

This is one of many examples showing that good apps should just focus on one task and just use standards to cooperate with other apps focusing on other tasks.

Peertube for example focuses on videos, not user management. I am very OK that they don't support passkeys, because they implemented OpenId Connect standard to allow me use Keycloak for better login options.

On the other hand, I am quite sad that SSO is often the one feature, that is proprietary and reserved only for paying customers. SSO is not for huge corporations anymore. It's also usefull for us, selfhosters with couple of users.

❤️

Hice un vídeo para que puedas enviárselo a tus personas cercanas, explicando lo fácil que es dejar #WhatsApp, y por qué es importante hacerlo. 💬

fediverse.tv/w/35Lvufq1XW8ZVBT… (@ivangj@fediverse.tv)
También disponible en YouTube por si quieres evitar rozamientos 😅.

#SoftwareLibre #PeerTube #Chat #Signal #XMPP #DeltaChat #Matrix

We did it! 🥳🎉

Thanks to you, we achieved all the objectives of the crowdfunding campaign for the #PeerTube mobile app!

Thank you so much for your support during the campaign! 🥰

To mark the occasion, we've written a final article: joinpeertube.org/news/crowdfun…

The application crowdfunding was a success! | JoinPeerTube

We did it! Thanks to your support, we achieved all three of our fundraising goals for developing features in the PeerTube application! We now have the...

^JoinPeerTube

🎉 I'm happy for Peertube! The campaign has ended and they have reached their final goal: support.joinpeertube.org/en/

#krita #peertube

Udělal jsem na #VHSky playlist s vysvětlujícíma videama o principech, na kterých funguje #Fediverse

Byť je to všechno anglicky, možná se vám to někomu bude hodit, až zase někdo přijde s dotazem "a co to jako je?" :)

Zatim tam je #Mastodon, #Peertube a #Fediverse obecně .. pokud někdo potkáte další videonávod, sem s ním :)

Jo a samozřejmě klasicky sdílejte, než to smažou!

VHSky

VHSky – Otevřená platforma pro sdílení videí bez reklam. Podporujeme kreativitu, svobodu projevu a komunitní obsah.

^VHSky

Come on #Fediverse, if you can, put some money where your heart is. The people from Framasoft are working hard on #PeerTube and are only looking for €75.000. With less than 40 hours to go, you can be part of the difference we want to see in the world :)

Soon we will be able to livestream from our smartphone to the fediverse!

Framasoft is a French non-profit, based in Lyon.

support.joinpeertube.org/en/?m…

Support PeerTube

Let's popularize videos shared by the people, for the people!

^{support.joinpeertube.org}

Die Entwicklung der #PeerTube #App ist unterstützenswert:

support.joinpeertube.org/en/
#OpenSource #Video #FediVerse

Support PeerTube

Let's popularize videos shared by the people, for the people!

^{support.joinpeertube.org}

🗓️ There are 4 days left to contribute to the crowdfunding campaign for the #PeerTube mobile app and help us to reach the next goal!

Every contribution helps us build a world where everyone can use PeerTube from anywhere!

👉 support.joinpeertube.org

#crowdfunding #mobile #app #FLOSS #FOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

Soutenir PeerTube

Popularisons les vidéos partagées par les humain⋅es pour les humain⋅es !

^{support.joinpeertube.org}

I just gave to support #Peertube, the free and open alternative to Youtube

support.joinpeertube.org/en/

If they raise 15.000€, they will offer "Peertube Premium" to all users. I laughed

All my videos are available on Peertube: indymotion.fr/c/oneploumshow

Test it, join it, support it!

Support PeerTube

Let's popularize videos shared by the people, for the people!

^{support.joinpeertube.org}

Všem, co tvoří videa pro #VHSky bych chtěl poděkovat. Obzvlášť těm, co nahrávají pravidelně.

Já vim lidi, že nemáte tisíce shlédnutí, jako na #YouTube, nikdo vám nikdy za nic nezaplatí (naopak část vás spíš platí, aby nějaký VHSky byly :)) a je nás tam málo, ale když se podíváte, tak dneska už to neni poloprázdná stránka s ničím.

Jsou tam recepty, zvířátka, IT věci, přednášky i filmy a to všechno jen díky vám všem.

Teď bych ale měl žádost/prosbičku/apel na vás. Chtěl bych, aby tenhle post měl co nejvíc přesdílení a komentářů, aby o projektu vědělo co nejvíc lidí a třeba někoho dalšího napadne, že to jeho háčkování, 3Dtisky, výlety, politalky nebo třeba jiný varianty broukpytlingu můžou bejt pro někoho zajímavý a natočí je. Nebo někdo, kdo o VHSkách ještě neví začne pravidelně sledovat :)

Zároveň chci požádat o diskuzi o tom, co vám tam chybí, přebývá nebo co by šlo vylepšit. Chtěl bych vědět, proč tam jste (anebo ještě nejste :) ) a jestli třeba neznáte nějaký zajímavý účty, co ještě nemirrorujem.

Pojďme si ten náš #PeerTube doladit tak, aby si každej něco našel.

(A ještě jednou díky všem!)

Welcome Fedi Friends to the episode 9 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.

With me today is Robert Kingett! Robert is a writer of fiction and nonfiction as well as a technical writer and accessibility specialist. Robert has been helping with disability access improvements in the Fediverse. His biggest contributions have been to the open source and federated book review application Bookwyrm. Robert is blind and has a stutter. He has very deep thoughts on old people, taxes, and animals. And finds Santa Claus to be very rude that he never responds to children's letters. So Robert I'm not disabled and haven't really worked around anyone that's been disabled, so if you have any suggestions for me going forward, please do not hesitate to help me learn.

sightlessscribbles.com
caneandable.social/@WeirdWrite…
spectra.video/c/robertkingett
sightlessscribbles.com/support…
spectra.video/w/5UL2NPGP5a1uH8…

Robert Kingett

2025-03-27 22:21:11

EarHockey Demo

A slightly older demo I did of Ear Hockey for Windows wherein I play one game on extreme mode, showing how both blind and sighted gamers can play without sighted people needing the same accessibility features I need to play the game.

Ear Hockey | Microsoft Garage

^{Microsoft Garage}

🐙 It's out, and we're proud! 🐙

The #PeerTube mobile app is upgraded to v1!
Log on to your account(s), comment and (dis)like videos, manage your subscriptions & playlists, get your watch history and in-app notifications.

All the info: joinpeertube.org/news/app-v1

App v1 is out! | JoinPeerTube

Today, our not-for-profit (Framasoft) is proud to present v1 of the PeerTube mobile application, 4 months after its first release! It's the work of a ...

^JoinPeerTube

【𝕭𝖆𝖘𝖘𝖕𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖑 🎬】
AxWax remixes at the Not Bonk What I Call Wave: Remixes Vol 2 launch party

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📺 v.basspistol.org/w/njehmVvLcBj…
⚠️ Your comments to this post are appreciated, but consider following this creator or interacting with the video directly by pasting the link above in your instance's search-box! 💌
🈁 #peerTube #Basspistol