<story><title>PeerTube v2</title><url>https://framablog.org/2019/11/12/peertube-has-worked-twice-as-hard-to-free-your-videos-from-youtube/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcjiggerlog</author><text>I really want to like peertube but I think its UX, at least where it stands now, is going to hold it back from ever challenging youtube.&lt;p&gt;I use youtube a lot, and for a huge range of topics. I don&amp;#x27;t have any interest in creating an account on a niche-specific instance and I think the average user who doesn&amp;#x27;t even understand what federalization does even less. However, I literally don&amp;#x27;t even understand how to make an account on what, as far I can tell, is supposed to be the go-to instance - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;peertube.social&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;peertube.social&lt;/a&gt;. If there&amp;#x27;s no main platform where you can watch and discover general content then there&amp;#x27;s nothing that you can point new users to.&lt;p&gt;As a developer, if you want to host a niche video site, then peertube looks great. As a user, if you want to move off of youtube then I don&amp;#x27;t think this is how you&amp;#x27;re going to do that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jaster</author><text>Probably because:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Signups are currently closed, but you can get an account by sending a message (including your desired username) through the &amp;quot;contact administrator&amp;quot; button above. Please read the terms first.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;(from &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;peertube.social&amp;#x2F;about&amp;#x2F;instance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;peertube.social&amp;#x2F;about&amp;#x2F;instance&lt;/a&gt;)</text></comment>
<story><title>PeerTube v2</title><url>https://framablog.org/2019/11/12/peertube-has-worked-twice-as-hard-to-free-your-videos-from-youtube/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mcjiggerlog</author><text>I really want to like peertube but I think its UX, at least where it stands now, is going to hold it back from ever challenging youtube.&lt;p&gt;I use youtube a lot, and for a huge range of topics. I don&amp;#x27;t have any interest in creating an account on a niche-specific instance and I think the average user who doesn&amp;#x27;t even understand what federalization does even less. However, I literally don&amp;#x27;t even understand how to make an account on what, as far I can tell, is supposed to be the go-to instance - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;peertube.social&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;peertube.social&lt;/a&gt;. If there&amp;#x27;s no main platform where you can watch and discover general content then there&amp;#x27;s nothing that you can point new users to.&lt;p&gt;As a developer, if you want to host a niche video site, then peertube looks great. As a user, if you want to move off of youtube then I don&amp;#x27;t think this is how you&amp;#x27;re going to do that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yorwba</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a list of instances that allow account creation: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;joinpeertube.org&amp;#x2F;instances#instances-list&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;joinpeertube.org&amp;#x2F;instances#instances-list&lt;/a&gt; peertube.social is not one of them.</text></comment>