I was just checking our PeerTube.

I was just checking our PeerTube. I searched for "John Brown's Body", and did find a video of the Pete Seeger rendition.

PeerTube is the equivalent to YouTube on the Fediverse.

Some years ago I decided to move away from proprietary social media options due to concerns about their increasing tracking and monetarisation of their platforms. So, I set up accounts in Diaspora, Friendica, Lemmy, and Mastodon.

Diaspora was okay, but not much was happening there. I quite liked Friendica, but then the instance I was on suddenly pulled the plug. I liked Lemmy, but, unlike Reddit, there was no way to post videos.

I like taking news videos and getting relevant unedited segments from them (interviews with left leaning politicians in Canada often aren't highlighted and, thus, can't be found elsewhere). So I thought PeerTube would be the answer. However, most of the instance servers baulked at the idea of posting an unedited clip from the news, feeling it's a grave copyright infringement. News is shocking, whereas if I made asinine videos (like, of me eating marbles or something), that would be okay.

However, I did find one instance that would allow it, stating I could claim "fair use". But, usually after posting I'd have to wait a week for the moderators to approve it. And that instance lately is warning users that money constraints may have lead to its shutdown.

It's too bad. I'd like to find a YouTube alternative.

#Fediverse #peertube

Pete Seeger - John Brown's body

Back around the time that northern Christians, abolitionists, free blacks, anti-slavery activists and Kansas land owners first formed the Republican party, John Brown, an abolitionist and Baptist p...

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