At the moment, official KDE videos are only uploaded to youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF3I1gf7GcbmAb0mR6vxkZQ).
But youtube is not a satisfying platform because of this reasons:
- youtube is **unfree** software
- it **spies** on the users and collects a lot of data
- it is **centralized**
- there are many **ads** on the platform
- it is **censored**
- it is not controlled by the KDE sysadmins
- ... (and many more you can think of)
Much better would be a parallel posting strategy like it is done with the social media posts which are posted on facebook and twitter as well as on mastodon, reddit and google plus.
The best alternative video platform to youtube is **PeerTube** (https://joinpeertube.org/en/).
The advantages of PeerTube are:
- **completely free software** (AGPLv3)
- **does not spy** on the users
- **decentralized**
- **P2P**
- neither controlled nor censored by a central authority
- many instances (https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances)
- little server load because of P2P
- cannot be shut down
- cannot be sold
- instances can be connected together so theoretically, it would be possible to view videos from all instances at all instances
- ... (maybe some more)
Integration of PeerTube with KDE:
- running our own instance would be the best solution and quite easy because there's already a docker container (https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/doc/docker.md) and there's less server load because of P2P (PeerTube is WebTorrent-based)
- <Nightrose> Please keep in mind the additional sysadmin work and cost for something like this. (from KDE promo channel)
- <Nightrose> We're trying to reduce the number of systems we have to maintain ourselves ;-) (from KDE promo channel)
- out of this reasons it is really unlikely that KDE will have its own PeerTube instance in the nearer future
- but this does not end our PeerTube journey: **there are many other great instances out there on the internet where we can put the official KDE videos to (https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances)**
- https://video.tedomum.net would be the instance with the most following instances provided there is no upload quota and open registration
Some of the official as well as some of the community posts on dot.kde.org and on planet.kde.org include videos (e.g.: https://dot.kde.org/2018/02/06/plasma-512-out-and-it-faster-stabler-and-has-more-features-ever https://dot.kde.org/2018/03/22/5-things-look-forward-krita-40). In the most cases, they do it by using youtube. But **youtube does not comply with KDE's vision "A world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys freedom and privacy." because youtube is spying on the users as well it is not free software**. By embedding youtube videos in our blog posts **we force the viewers to load the videos from an unfree spying platform** and this practice **does not comply with the KDE vision**. A much better way would be to upload all videos to PeerTube and **embed it using PeerTube** like following:
```
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://framatube.org/videos/embed/c193a2f6-8b24-48c3-a93e-f89bd71cad42" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
```
Requirements for a PeerTube instance we upload our videos to:
- open registration
- no upload limit
- many following instances
- nearly 100 % uptime
Optional requirements for a PeerTube instance we upload our videos to:
- good ping and fast connection
- rather run by a reliable organization than by a private person
- follows many instances
- pronouncable domain name which can be remembered easily
- run by an entity which shares the same values like KDE
Possible instances:
- framatube.org
-- run by a great organization
-- 78 followers
-- no open registration, we would have to ask for an account
- https://peertube.nsa.ovh
-- 55 followers
-- follows 112 instances
-- open registration
-- upload limit of 1 GB (quotation from the About site: "if you need more, contact Skid")
-- from 240p up to 1080p transcoding! (I saw no other instance doing this!)
-- quite a strange name
-- nsa.ovh is not an organization, it is hosted quite privately by four guys
-- they say nothing about their values or why they do it
- https://video.tedomum.net/
-- open registration
-- no upload limit
-- 33 following instances
-- follows 27 instances
-- run by the TeDomum organisation
-- similar values like KDE
-- converts videos only to 360p and 720p