Notices by switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at), page 55

@hummingrain @dreadpirateyarr

There's an open federated alternative specifically made to replace Facebook Events on the way really soon:

https://joinmobilizon.org/en

also on here at @mobilizon

@kelbot @LPS

...but they are still adding other videos.

:blobshrug:

@Stem

It seems there's no clear alternative :blobsad:

There's a thread about it here:

https://mastodon.at/@switchingsocial/100865789597232444

@kelbot @LPS

That was a very weird episode. First they put the film up on the day of release, then the whole instance closed.

I wrote to them to ask about it, they said they didn't know anything about the instance going down. Then the instance came back up, but without the latest film.

They also said they try to avoid putting new films out as creative commons in the first few weeks, because so many sites try to claim CC titles as their own film (apparently).

@LPS

Yeah, PeerTube is absolutely perfect for hosting open videos.

Blender does an excellent job at https://video.blender.org

@ChrisTalleras

I think he's still around at @sean ?

@ChrisTalleras

PeerTube can be really good as a platform. Like you say, the federated side of things seems to let it down.

https://vidcommons.org has lots of excellent creative commons videos, but it doesn't list federated videos (though its videos do federate with other instances).

@pineapple

I've seen a single-user instance, @bob

@LPS

It's weird because open.tube's terms specifically say they don't carry porn.

@felix

Oh no... seems a bit of a problem? Do you know if the developers are working on a solution?

PeerTube people,

Can you suggest PeerTube instances which:

-Are open to new members

AND

-Don't have NSFW videos on their trending page

?

(I used to link to open.tube but it now lists porn on the front page :blobsad: )

#PeerTube

@brainblasted @Are0h @emsenn

Personally I would give write.as the benefit of the doubt here, as they've very often posted in the past about the difficulties of tackling spammers on their site.

@Urmeline @randulo

Maybe we need an extra section on Settings that lets people opt out of embedding too?

Like YouTube has?

@Urmeline @randulo

If the user doesn't want their posts to be visible to the public, surely they shouldn't post them as public posts?

I understand the point you're making, that people may not want posts visible outside Mastodon, but I don't see how that's connected to embedding.

A public post is visible to the entire internet whether it's embedded or not. If you don't want that, you should not post using the public setting.

@Urmeline @randulo

I know embedding makes it look like a post been copied or moved, but it hasn't really.