I'm currently running peertube.functional.cafe, which is a peertube instance primarily meant for members of function.cafe, but is open for others as well.
Right now, it's basically only holding my videos, and it's getting quite expensive to run this so that I can avoid youtube.
It's usually around 60 SGD per month, but for some reason it was 150 SGD last month.
I don't really want to pay this anymore just to serve my own videos. If there were others using it, there would at least be some justifiable reason to do so.
So, I have two questions:
Is anyone interested in hosting some videos on this instance? It should primarily be technical content, but I have a few nature videos on there as well and I don't see why I should stop anyone else from doing that. This would be free, as long as you're not using excessive resources.
The second question is even more important: Is anyone willing to contribute financially to this (presumably if you're also hosting videos on there, since at least my content is not worth anyone to pay for)?
If not, I'll probably shut the instance down.
@loke
VIDEO IS A CANCER
I've written about why in the past (let me know if you want specifics)
But in general I believe shutting down is best (you'll only be back to this point again).
Unless...
- some of the things really are over-taken care of (money / philanthropy for 1 year is given upfront)
- you filter the video content also to reduce the crud, but with no guarantees anyone will thank you..
Just some ideas but basically:
LARGE VIDEO IS UNSUSTAINABLE
AND UNWIELDY / TECHNICALLY BAD IN MANY WAYS (HARDWARE / MULTIPLE COPIES IN A STREAM / IGNORANT USERS / ETC).
If you can just keep locally for now or another reliable peertube instance (if your stuff is that good - send me a link if you want an opinion!)
