Notices by err head :pc2black: 🏴‍☠️ ✂️ (errhead@podcastindex.social)

@StevenB

I've pondered this and there are Issues.

- With fiat you get gatekeepers and anti-V4V policies.

- Any crypto gets a ton of push back from listeners and creators due to media FUD. Monero or Hive will get an order of magnitude more push back than Bitcoin.

- Have yet to find a non-crypto non-fiat micropayment system that didn't stink incredibly of scam

@silverpill @wjmaggos @3dcandy

Some do, some don't

almost all want a simple address they can go to to experience PeerTube and joinpeertube is much more user hostile than they are looking for in a default site.

>I think there might be other ways to alleviate instance choice anxiety

Me too, but they are on the dev side and not available yet. Until that point the ops side should be doing what it can.

@3dcandy @wjmaggos

>why?

Because the biggest hurdle for new users is instance choice anxiety

Because small instances frequently go down ruining the experience for users.

Because ~90% of users are content consumers, not creators, and don't benefit particularly from the decentralized part of the infrastructure

Because now with the export/import support viewers can easily migrate off the default instance when they decide to become creators or migrate to a particular instance.

@aral @LaQuadrature @peertube
release candidate issue mostlike
https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/6336

The issue with PeerTube's standard RSS feeds not working with Torrent clients has been around for a while. A recently linked discussion reminded me I haven't checked it since the Podcast 2.0 feed became available. Verified it still wasn't working and hunted down https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0036.html

Been working on an RSS feed that uses that spec for PeerTube channels to properly expose PeerTube's .torrent file for regular torrent client download.

https://tv.mattchristiansenmedia.com/plugins/podcast2/router/torrent?channel=testb is an example

example:

@silverpill dunno yet If I can make it work properly with all torrent clients, but it seems to be functioning somewhat with qBittorrent and BiglyBT

All PeerTube instance I run, manage, and assist with updated to 6.0.3

PeerTube Torrent compatible RSS feed now working with BiglyBT, Brave browser, and qBittorrent on windows, still having issues with android clients and lacking any seeboxes or IOS systems to test against.

@volkris @lps @Revertron @kzimmermann

yeah, perhaps if you completely ignore the p2p and p2n baked into PeerTube. anyone who has used decentralized media distribution IRL can see through this obvious FUD.

Centralization is only better at gatekeeping, user tracking, and ddos vulnerability.