thegiddystitcher @ thegiddystitcher @lemm.ee

Proud multicrafter, making cool stuff and all over the Fediverse like a ras

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I know makertube.net is having an issue at the moment where some fairly big maker channels are coming over, and just dumping their entire back catalogue in one go and spamming everything up. It's very annoying, so if you're considering a jump to PT please don't do this. You can import your YT videos as private, and schedule them to publish one by one instead.

The MakerTube admin posted an update just last week saying we had funding through the end of year, but since a load of new people just signed up they've now had to spin up extra resources so that might no longer be the case. How many of these new channels will actually donate remains to be seen!

Edit: Also if you're a viewer, remember you don't need a PeerTube account to subscribe to channels! You can get them in your Lemmy, Mastodon etc feeds and leave comments / upvotes without ever leaving your platform of choice.

If you're talking about from the creator side I did a bit of digging into the ins and outs when I joined a few weeks ago and did a writeup here, might have something of use in it https://lemm.ee/post/8545893

Same! Mine was purple and green and exceedingly stylish if I do say so myself.

Zooming in and realising that little nubbin on your Rifter is actually the whole cockpit is quite the shock!

Fwiw I'm with you on the film but turns out the book is great.

Fyi you've posted this at least 4 times by accident. But honestly no I haven't noticed anything amiss, which isn't very helpful for your situation sorry!

I didn't really know what I wanted to be, but in hindsight it's mostly because I didn't really know any options. In a small town in the 90s it was finish school, then go work in a shop (girls) or a factory (boys). That was the assumption and basically the whole career "advice" setup at my school.

So it kinda makes sense that nobody there seemed to have any ambitions.

Thankfully, I eventually found out that you're allowed to work with computers. Maybe someone would've mentioned that to me earlier if I'd been male but again, 90s. I taught myself web development, made a living off that for a while, eventually had enough and pivoted into being a small-time craft YouTuber!

La fina venko!

Ohhhh! Now I get it!

Basically when you add a content warning on Masto it'll just display that content warning in people's feeds but hide the actual content, unless they choose to click and expand. Blurs any attached images too. So you sort of know what you're in for if something is marked "CW: pet loss" for example, and can choose whether that's something you want to look at.

I think there's a setting somewhere to automatically expand CW posts if you're not fussed about things like that, but it's helpful for people who do have a common trigger.

Pretty slick feature tbh!

Yeah seems like we had similar first impressions. Your point about people dumping a back-catalogue and then not making new content is a good one too, seen a lot of that myself.

On the other version of this post, the dev actually chimed in and among other things suggested that it might be possible to start enabling global search on servers by default. Which, if this is a possibility I'm not sure why it wasn't done a long time ago...presumably there is a good reason buried in an old discussion thread somewhere. But it's encouraging that it is a possibility, at least.

I'm by no means expecting this to become a new YouTube, there's just not enough content for that. But of course, if people keep not using it because there's no content, there'll never be content. So I'm happy to be part of the experiment, and I make new videos most weeks so even once my own back-catalogue-dumping is complete at least there'll be something new going up there. Even if it's a bit less "tech and video games" than 99.9% of what people watch over there 😄

(off to watch your Outer Wilds video now, I'm a sucker for anything Outer Wilds)

Welcome and congrats on making the leap!

Absolutely! I'm not convinced the model could ever really scale like most people would need it to in order to start using it, but I'm very happy to be part of the experiment.

Yeah it's weird, I'm not familiar enough with the project yet to know if these roadblocks are idealogical and done on purpose, or if it just needs someone to come along and help smooth the whole experience out 🤷‍♀️

Honestly fair, I found a couple of things to subscribe to but I also did it through Mastodon 😄

Sounds very similar to my process! Great minds, and all that.

The only even slightly possible way I can think of would maybe be to have a mod from an instance that has uploads enabled do it. Not sure if that would actually work, and upload to their server then federate out, or if it would try and upload straight to the community's home instance and fail. But if you have a friend or an alt account it might be worth a go?

Truly is a small world, hah! I've heard of NewPipe but that's as far as that goes really, will have to check it out. Thanks for the tip!

Yes, I forgot to mention the app situation (or lack thereof). I saw reference to Thorium in a few Github discussions but was very disappointed by it. A good app would be a gamechanger.

I'm curious how you chose an instance as a viewer? Just based on where the channel(s) are that you want to follow?