Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video]

Re:Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video] by southerntofu on Monday September 20, 2021 @05:03AM (#28591637)

> 20 subscribers basically means that not even your friends and family are looking at your channel.

I agree with your interpretation overall, but there's other factors at play:

- Peertube isn't trying to force everyone to have an account like Youtube is

- the Peertube federation is much younger, and some would say it reached maturity for broader usage very recently (this year)

- view count does not account for people downloading the video directly using HTTPS direct connection and/or Webtorrent, only those using the default web client

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Re:Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video] by tsimionescu on Monday September 20, 2021 @06:55AM (#28592341)

I think there is a slight misunderstanding. The numbers from my GP were about YouTube subscribers and views, not PeerTube. The point being that this is a minuscule YT channel that is moving to PeerTube, one that is hardly representative of anything.

For comparison, here [0] is the YT channel that has moved to PeerTube, and here [1] is a random musician's channel that I happen to follow. The second is many times larger, even though it is a single person's channel.

[0] https://youtube.com/channel/UCj-eQP-Mt6Eo0mh3iwdB9Hg

[1] https://youtube.com/c/JoostLameris

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Re:Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video] by southerntofu on Monday September 20, 2021 @07:04AM (#28592415)

Thanks for the clarifiation! I had misunderstood the original comment indeed.

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