Re:PeerTube v3
by slx26 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @05:25AM
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Your local pub might be trying to offer an alternative to local people staying on their homes watching tv instead. Linux and peertube are trying to offer an alternative to something of a much bigger scale, and most likely with more pressing ethical concerns (they often want to drive people away from the current mainstream option for ethical reasons). Not everyone might share that view, but they are definitely different situations. Not saying you don't have a point, but we can't ignore the differences in context.
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> Linux and peertube are trying to offer an alternative to something of a much bigger scale, and most likely with more pressing ethical concerns
True.
But my point is that you could call both "a success" the moment that one singular person uses it as alternative. For that person it is a success!
With Peertube you need some network-effect, because one single person uploading and then watching those videos, can't be called "a success". But if a tiny niche, say a small group of specialist beekeepers, uses it to share instructional videos and no-one else in the entire world uses it, it can still be called "a success". Because for them it offers a solution.