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Hello fediverse!

I need your help to feature all of the amazing services that are part of the realm.

What are some of your favorite ActivityPub handles to follow on , , , , , , , , , and others?

Your replies will be categorized by @jejord, @AileenLalor, @miaq and @marci so that we can feature these accounts to our Flipboard users and work to ensure they render properly on Flipboard.

I'm excited to help evangelize the many great projects here and advocate for their adoption and funding.

@mike @jejord @AileenLalor @miaq @marci

From the top of my finger (tongue) I say

@FediFollows and @FediTips for the amazing job they're doing helping new users in Mastodon and providing curated lists of handle to follow by topics

@UKFilmNerd for writing movie reviews

@gamingonlinux for news about Linux gaming

@innkeeper @jejord @AileenLalor @miaq @marci @FediFollows @FediTips @UKFilmNerd @gamingonlinux thanks for the recommendations! I love gamers tavern. Who are some of your favorite peertubers?

@mike @jejord @AileenLalor @miaq @marci

Thank you, we really appreciate your love :adragonlove:

As for Peertubers, here's a few from our own instance:

- @creative_commons_music
- @linuxgameralpha
- @superdicq
- @glitchfoss

And I see @harrybo has already been suggested

@innkeeper @jejord @AileenLalor @miaq @marci @creative_commons_music @linuxgameralpha @superdicq @glitchfoss @harrybo super helpful! Thanks for mentioning these. We'll make sure these render well in Flipboard and then feature them to our users. Not nearly enough people know about .

@mike

Agreed. I feel like a big part of the problem though is lack of content, mainly because of people not wanting to take on the cost of video hosting. That could be a solvable issue though if we make use of the opportunity of the many users who would happily help provide storage and bandwidth if it was dirt simple, easy.

@mike

I'd love to see an official *Desktop* Peertube app, with video viewing, commenting and uploading functionality, but also with a single configuration click that let people automatically seed Peertube videos from their desktop.

It could be taken one step further afterwards, by letting instances upload directly to the shared community storage rather than needing their own. You'd see an explosion of content, which would bring more viewers.

@mike

You may need to provide a benefit to bandwidth providers if the network started getting saturated though. Non financial/vanity, so it didn't encourage fraud, but maybe something like badges when commenting, based on what percentile they were in for providing community bandwidth.

Down the line it would also be great to see Podcasting 2.0 style streaming sats for viewed minutes, but that's probably better off offloaded to a Peertube plugin.

@Blort These are fantastic points. Video storage, uploading and streaming is quite expensive to do and needs some kind of business model to support it at scale. This is one reason why I think a federated Patreon would be a huge unlock for expansion and health of the fediverse and video creators.

@mike

Absolutely. Some form of non-advertising based monetization, really is crucial. A federated Patreon would be a fabulous step forward, especially if it could incorporate podcasting 2.0 style SAT streaming. High friction one off donations will only ever get a project so far.

Mike McCue

@Blort I've heard this concept of "podcasting 2.0" recently. What does it mean?

@mike

It's a set of extensions for RSS. Some of them add features like transcripts, subtitles, livestreaming, episode comments and my personal fave, the ability for listeners/viewers to stream Sats (ie millionths of a Bitcoin) to content creators based on how long a listener/viewer listens/watches.

It's reinvigorated some podcasting substantially, and there's potential to do the same for visual media like Peertube too. I'm curious if it could be extended to a more eco friendly alt coin.

@mike

Maybe some storage based coin, rather than a computation based one?

@mike

You can see what apps currently support Podcasting 2.0, and which features over here:
podcastindex.org/apps

EDIT: Wild! I just saw Peertube there and it already supports streaming sats! That could make an interesting business, setting up a host with Sat streaming by default, so creators would get paid by viewers and hosting could also automatically be paid from the BTC account.🤔

We just need SAT streaming added to the upcoming official #Peertube app, to make it more common here.

Podcastindex.orgApps | Podcastindex.orgThe Podcast Index is here to preserve, protect and extend the open, independent podcasting ecosystem.

@Blort @mike
sat streaming requires the sysop to select the lightning plugin for their instance.