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0 pointsrchaud4y ago0 comments

Peertube's UX could be better, but it doesn't present itself as a Youtube competitor, does it? It's the cult of decentralization people that bring it up everytime somebody gets kicked off Youtube.

But it's not Youtube and never will be. Pretending that it can be defeats the purpose. As does an overly simplified UX that hides the system capacity underpinning the technology (20GB limit). It will feel like a bait and switch when a newly converted user runs up against the limits of decentralized solutions, because they were not educated about that before.

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tester8474y ago

>Peertube's UX could be better, but it doesn't present itself as a Youtube competitor, does it?

That's a pretty stupid question, isn't it? If we replace your word "competitor" with the word I used, "alternative", then yes, it does.

>But it's not Youtube and never will be. Pretending that it can be defeats the purpose.

What purpose?

>As does an overly simplified UX that hides the system capacity underpinning the technology (20GB limit). It will feel like a bait and switch when a newly converted user runs up against the limits of decentralized solutions, because they were not educated about that before.

99.9% of people will never care about "the system capacity underpinning the technology".

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