Love seeing Andy Rush playing hard in the fediverse. He recently got his own PeerTube instance up and running at AndyTube, now I have to figure out how to subscribe. I was pushed to get my PeerTube upgraded to 7.1 thanks to Taylor Jadin‘s Docker kungfu. I understand why Andy needs a service like FediHost for hosting PeerTube because upgrades are not self-evident like WordPress. I’m totally onboard with Andy’s sense of an alternative space for video storage and streaming as a smaller YouTube alternative (one not laden with the endless ads and AI-driven content checks) that allows you to capture some of the cultural artifacts you were discussing on your blog, say.
I just found several videos from 10+ years ago at UMW where I was talking with Howard Rheingold and Nada Dabbagh about building their own personal learning environment for teaching and learning with Domains. It’s been a minute.
So I put those up on my bava.tv site to ensure I have a web copy available given my local hardware storage is abysmal. I also do irregular small streams playing with some retrotech like Windows 98 and RetroPie. My idea before my dad died was to play a season of Madden 2001 on the PS1 and build an AI universe around the stats and details of each football game on a weekly basis, somewhat reminiscent of Coover’s Universal Baseball Association, Inc. The idea of getting lost in the world of the imaginary, a fantasy/nightmare ever more complicated by the promise of AI. One way to materialize this would be to explore AI tools that are designed to reproduce cultural realities like blog posts, call-in radio, talk shows, memes, imagery, and video playback. That would be more a bavatube affair, I guess, something decently produced with a regular stream of Madden 2001. Currently the site is used for random archiving and experimentation—more of a bava.tv thing or, just the junk I decide to throw up there without any rhyme or reason.
Thing is, I just love playing with video and streaming and PeerTube is definitely a safe space for that, especially since I have been burned by YouTube in the past. As of now I have so many possible stream setups for this AI Madden 2001 project it’s dizzying, insane how involved it is to get a Raspberry Pi running RetroPie or Batocera to stream cleanly to a YOLO Box with clean audio, correct aspect ratios, and an unobtrusive second camera all streaming to PeerTube. It’s never simple, and that is part of the joy. Anyway, Once I return to that project and lock it in I’ll do my best to graduate from bava.tv to bavatube 🙂
Always humbled by a Bava shoutout!
There are so many ways of PeerTubing that I’m still grappling with all it can do. I need to make the “Subscribe to AndyTube” more prominent (don’t forget to Like as well). My “channel” can be found here – https://andyrush.fedihost.io/c/personal/videos – with a big ol’ Subscribe button, and because of the beauty that is PeerTube you can subscribe and follow in so many ways. I’m scouring the web to what’s out there, but I’ll likely make a video to try to boil it all down – once I figure it out myself 🙂
So happy to join the AV club with you!
Was thrilled to see you playing with PeerTube and really excited to learn about Fedihost. I am definitely interested in how they make the process easier because that is something we need to do better with Reclaim Cloud for a lot of these fediverse apps given they can be a bear to manage.
One of the many things I like about PeerTube is the streaming functionality, it is quite good with solid live URL that converts live streams to their own URL and archived post is quite slick. The importing YouTube videos was amazing but that has since been broken because YouTube is ever more annoying. I was inspired by you to get my instance from 5X to 7X, so I am feeling the love, I just now need to clean-up my offloading video functionality, and then i am cooking with gas. A Tube of One’s Own 4life