People of #Europe!
We must fight with #American social media. Not only because there are from the #USA which is no longer a reliable ally, but also because they made SUCH a massive monopoly in this aspect. We must propagate our #European #Fediverse. Spread the word! Don’t use their tech! Use what is ours and secure. Don’t sell data across the Atlantic
#EU #BuyFromEU #BuyFromEurope #Mastodon #PeerTube #Lemmy #Pixelfed #BoycottUSA #BoycottAmerica #BoycottUS #Trump #Tariffs #Musk #ViveLaEueope

my adventures in #selfhosting - day 89

Oh #PeerTube, you are making me do mental somersaults as I strategize about the best way to self-host my videos.

This newbie wants to ask: how many VPS’s are too many for someone who has little coding experience and has been self-hosting for just 3 months?

Fedi friends, I’m thinking of signing up for a THIRD VPS

Why?

My current setup:

5€/month Debian VPS with #YunoHost, where I’m self-hosting #GoToSocial (this account), #Friendica, #Pixelfed, #Fail2Ban and #LinkStack.
5€/month Ubuntu VPS where I am self-hosting my (upcoming) #Ghost blog (this will make me save a ton, compared to my current Ghost Pro plan).

Back to PeerTube: I could easily upgrade my #Debian VPS and install it there - the costs would be minimal and I would double my RAM and storage. But I am afraid of PeerTube’s consumption when it comes to bandwidth. As in: if I upload a video that for some reason becomes really popular, or if a bad actor decides to DDOS my channel, would that take down all my other self-hosted Fediverse instances? Since they are on the same VPS?

I could limit potential issues by having a dedicated VPS just for PeerTube.

What would you do?

And do you have recommendations for Europe-based VPS’s with affordable plans? (aside from Hostinger) I was thinking of #Hetzner…

#MySoCalledSudoLife #AskFedi

Marco Pavanello / Wolf Studio make really cool CGI videos and animations with Blender. You can follow at:

@marco

There are already 23 videos uploaded, you can browse them all at https://makertube.net/a/marco/videos. You might particularly want to check out the short films "The Spark" (https://makertube.net/w/qPzyWiJPBhej8WfgYFPz2j) and "Pebble" (https://makertube.net/w/tihdkkgvmKHsxkr9QgJHYe).

You can also follow Pavanello's general social media account at @nacioss

Tässä Google Workspace -tilauksen lopettamisen kynnyksellä pitäisi päättää, että mitä videoalustaa aikoo käyttää. PeerTube houkuttelisi, mutta osaako joku suositella PeerTube-instanssia, joka olisi myös taloudellisesti vakaalla pohjalla? Bonusta, jos on suomalainen, mutta EU-alueella oleva riittää.

Peertube.wtf vaikuttaa verrattain suositulta. Onko muita hyviä suosituksia?

In the @newyorktimes:

"#ActivityPub has also led to a wave of start-up efforts such as #Mastodon, a microblogging service that now has more than 14 million accounts connected by a network of over 14,000 host computers, as well as start-ups like #Pixelfed and #PeerTube, distributed services that offer features similar to #Instagram and #YouTube."

A Long-Shot Bet to Bypass the Middlemen of #SocialMedia

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/technology/mike-mccue-surf-browser-decentralized-internet.html

Coreyartus is an artist doing calm friendly video livestreams as he creates his works. He also posts the streams as full-length recordings and as short timelapses.

@coreyartus@makertube.net

There are already over 300 videos uploaded, if they haven't federated to your server yet you can browse them all at https://makertube.net/a/coreyartus/videos

You can also follow Coreyartus's general social media account at @Coreyartus@mindly.social

So, when I follow a Peertube user from my Mastodon-account, and that user publishes a new video, but the video doesn't show up on my Mastodon feed, what's likely to be the cause of that?

It has worked fine for previous videos.

Budding peer-tuber here
@arthen @tremytwr
#peertube

I wonder how much progress the #fediverse could have and grow in quality if the @EUCommission could seriously fund good non-profit projects that already make an interoperable web possible: @Mastodon , @pixelfed , @pleroma , @peertube , @gotosocial etc.

There are talks about BILLIONS of euros to rearm Europe, which seems justified to me. But it seems that no one puts on the table how to seriously address the problem of disinformation campaigns that undermine democracies. I found the EU project EU vs Disinfo https://euvsdisinfo.eu/, but they didn't dare to create at least a profile here.

Let's perpetuate the cycle of walled gardens run by cool tech bros and their profit seeking businesses. It is very comfortable.

Kennst Du das Heidelberg Happy Video, das ich vor rund 11 Jahren als Projekt organisiert & veröffentlicht habe? Ich habe es heute auf #PeerTube neu veröffentlicht:

4 Minuten https://tube.tchncs.de/w/imK6gLFpkNUPfrfFbabYJB

24 Minuten https://tube.tchncs.de/w/uhw3hbzEWwFtH2J9tSyD7P

Websites:
https://happy-heidelberg.de/
https://www.vbachem.de/projects/happy-heidelberg-film

｢¿Que es el Fediverso?｣

https://friend.cuyes.mooo.com/display/396cc48f-1567-d31f-b28f-e59395554631

#PeerTube has a powerful plugin system allowing admins to customize their platform.

Either to add a live chat, or for defining a different transcoding resolution, plugins open up new possibilities for your PeerTube platform!

https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin/customize-instance

#PeerTube a un système de plugins puissant permettant aux administrateur·ices de personnaliser leur plateforme.

https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin/customize-instance

Johnny Blanchard / Re-Enthused makes videos about retro computers and consoles, including both famous and obscure systems. You can follow at:

@johnny_blanchard

There are already 570 videos uploaded. If these haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://makertube.net/a/johnny_blanchard/videos

You can also follow Blanchard's general social media account at @jonn_blanchard