I can see why people love it, but the humor wasn’t quite good enough to hook me (yet), everything else seems really good though

yes Youtube has maybe a billion user accounts with 0 videos, it’s the main way to use the platform

they seem to only give accounts to creators

Yea this is a bit silly. It seems like they manually approve user accounts because they need to be careful with the uploads using up their storage. But a way better solution would be to approve users more liberally, and user accounts would be created without a channel so they cannot upload anything, and creating channels needs to be approved. That way people can freely make user accounts for browsing/following, and the admins can still restrict spam channels from being created and uploading videos.

yea Youtube lets you use the same name, but the extra organization that Peertube gives seems pretty cool too

YouTube is a bit different because you can use your username as your channel name, and then you can have multiple “brands” that aren’t linked to your username. People can’t find those from your main account.

apparently Backblaze Desktop doesn’t support Linux.

I haven’t tried it, but apparently if you do a mapped network drive in Windows then BackBlaze will let you back it up as normal.

what’s the best peertube instance to upload gaming videos to? I might upload some and see how it goes

edit: I think I’m gonna go with spectra, but omg this is annoying:

Channel identifier cannot be the same as your account name. You can click on the first step to update your account name.

I get it, they’re separate actors, but still annoying. Can people find my channel by either name? Edit2: yes they can, all the user’s channels are listed on the user profile, which maybe makes it worth the signup annoyance

We should probably do one for the From season 3 finale in about a week. There used to be a community for that show hosted on Kbin but it went down.