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title: Closing Down My Peertube Instance
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2020-03-06T00:21:02Z
I am in the process of deciding whether to close down my peertube
instance (tube.bootlicker.party).
I am not sure that I want to support multimedia which is accessed
through streaming.
I will host all my videos statically on gopher, I think
(gopher://awkward.company).
Videos should ideally be accessed locally after being completely
downloaded once.
It's obviously a complex issue that I do not fully understand, but, like
the rest of the siloed and walled gardened web, if there was no metadata
harvesting and surveillance, I would not mind streaming
But the point isn't really streaming / non streaming. I object to the
web, to HTML, and I have a radical vision for how computing is meant to
work.
Computer literacy is low, and streaming allows for easy human computer
interfacing with minimal social work in order to make these systems
accessible.
So my point is this - I want people to be slightly surprised, and start
noticing - hey! This video was easy to share through an email! This
video I can make portable and easily replayable when there is no
internet! Etc etc
I dunno, like all things which are a hobby, I will do it for some years,
and then change my mind and do something else.
Like gopher: it's wonderful! And its culture is healthy. YouTube? Nope.
I don't care if no-one notices. I am not trying to publicly broadcast
myself.