hendrik

Right. OP didn’t specify it has to be a technical shortcoming… or easy to solve. So I just said what I think is the biggest issue. Because I really think the platform itself, and the software are great. And still constantly improving.

I think this is really difficult to impossible to overcome. Other for-profit platforms have failed at this. Even the big players like Youtube, TikTok etc needed a huge pile of money, investors and an unethical business model to succeed. And I’m pretty sure we don’t want that with PeerTube.

I think what we currectly, realistically can do is have a few big content creators do it for fun. And host their stuff on PeerTube. But that needs some other motivation than making money.

Ultimately, the majority of the worth or value of a platform like this isn’t in the program code. But in the content and userbase. And I think that’s where the focus needs to be when we want to grow or improve it for the potential users.

It’s an easy excuse for pretty much anything. Most likely an excuse to be lazy, because that’s where it comforts someone… Doesn’t mean it has to be untrue… Just that it’s easy to use it as an excuse for the wrong things.

But I bet you interact with the world and have an effect on what happens. You could for example keep notes and then not forget about things. Or influence something so it’s likely to turn out more positive?!

I think it’s mainly the content. We need some good content, creative people and interesting videos on the platform. Yeah and maybe discoverability. People also need to get those videos displayed/recommended to them. Other than that, a good app is always nice. That’s already been worked on. But regarding the technology, I think Peertube works quite nicely these days. And it has a good amount of features as well.

Maybe user error, then? Could be someone having a misconfigured home network. Or computer/phone with a broken or littered browser? If it’s the location, that’s probably due to some networking/peering/DNS issues, or I’m just not around when it’s evening in the USA and usage and stress on the servers pike. Did someome destroy yet another underseas cable? Or did the current US administration mess with the internet some more?

Edit: By the way: now it takes my computer 1.1s to fetch the site. And another 0.5s for the JavaScript. And the images trickle in some time after that.

Loads in a fraction of a second here…

Uuh, I don’t have any good instances to recommend. But my advice is to skip the politics and news communities. I mean it’s difficult these days anyways. But also here on Lemmy, they’re not very good.

And try the other Fediverse platforms as well, like Pixelfed, Mastodon… Maybe they’re appreciated. And they all gave a different atmosphere and feel to them.

Someone needs to add a “Fediverse at home…” drawing.

Sure. I’d say the price is alright if they manage everything for you. There is some labor involved in designing such a platform, packaging the applications, maintaining the infrastructure, preparing updates etc and offering support of an application level. If they do that, it’s probably worth the additional bucks. I maintain some services myself and get away way cheaper. But there is a substancial investment in time to learn webhosting and maintaining stuff.

Not sure. The website looks alright. I always have a look at the contact details and see if it’s a proper company. It says K&T is a brand name of “Operation Enterprise” which doesn’t give any results when googling it. So I’d be wary. But check for yourself.

You can just pay for a month and see what happens? But I’d add: $11.25 USD isn’t very cheap for a VPS with that specifications. For that price you could also pick lots of other hosting providers. You’d just have to set up Lemmy yourself.