Is peertube a practical alternative to youtube for short instructional videos? Or is anything else an alternative? I know zero about this but would like to know more. Thanks.
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Is peertube a practical alternative to youtube for short instructional videos? Or is anything else an alternative? I know zero about this but would like to know more. Thanks.
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🌴 Seph 💭 👾
in reply to B Kahn • •B Kahn
in reply to 🌴 Seph 💭 👾 • • •@vextaur
Mostly I am recording short-format videos that enable English learners to watch 60-90 seconds of English (often quotations) as a loop so they can practice their listening and pronunciation skills. On YouTube the option to play the video as a loop is built-in when it's in the short format. I find repetition very helpful in language learning and teaching.
I could record these for all eternity and they will never generate income, so I don't care about monetization.
🌴 Seph 💭 👾
in reply to B Kahn • •B Kahn
in reply to 🌴 Seph 💭 👾 • • •@vextaur @dansup
I just looked at #Loops. Appears to be in beta but evolving quickly? I get at most 1,000+ views for a given short video and the viewers are from many countries. They will want and need a simple click-and-watch format. Anything that looks too odd or requires them to join a new platform is not going to fly...
🌴 Seph 💭 👾
in reply to B Kahn • •@B Kahn Ok, poking at my account over there, videos can be up to about three minutes, I don't think you need an account to view (we'll test that in a sec), there's clients for IOS and Android, and you can share them via the Fediverse like this...
loops.video/v/cIWJ_fiLmY
Did that work for you either as embedded or click and view?
B Kahn
in reply to 🌴 Seph 💭 👾 • • •That worked perfectly, thanks. I clicked the link, learned about narrow roads, and it immediately looped when it reached the end. Do you know if there's a client for Mac? If not I can send one from my Mac to my phone, I guess. Any tips on how to upload and test would be welcomed, thanks very much!
🌴 Seph 💭 👾
in reply to B Kahn • •@B Kahn I don't think there is, @dansup is the developer, so he could answer that one, but I think its only mobile clients as that's the typical model for a product like this, but you could always upload through the web site:
That's what it looks like for me using FireFox on Linux. Far as I know loops.video is doing sign up and I think there are other instances, or you could spin your own up if'n you're inclined.
B Kahn
in reply to 🌴 Seph 💭 👾 • • •@vextaur @dansup
Hmm. I signed up, downloaded a Mac app, and tried and failed to upload two different short videos. Timeout errors. I'll have to explore more when I have time, I guess. Thanks for your help!
🌴 Seph 💭 👾
in reply to B Kahn • •Rusty Shackleford
in reply to 🌴 Seph 💭 👾 • • •@vextaur @dansup
Videos also appear optimized for mastodon federation:
After an account is interacted with and has been federated, their account and future videos will also appear here
I've shared videos straight from my loops account with federation so you don't have to leave mastodon to watch them, click on my profile to check it, you'll see me reposting videos from a loops account of the same name, as another example you can also find dansup's loops account on mastodon