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Allow boosting (share) videos from Peertube account #1520

Open Nutomic opened 5 years ago

Nutomic commented 5 years ago

The idea is to have an equivalent to Mastodon's boost feature, that is available for Peertube accounts. It could work like this: in addition to the like/dislike buttons, every video also has a "boost" button. When this button is clicked, the video will also be listed among your own videos, and be shown to your subscribers.

therahedwig commented 5 years ago

Something like this would be nice, yes, though, I imagine it'd might be frustrating to end subscribers to see mostly recommendations/boosted videos. However, if we can figure out the UI this could be a pretty potent way to do recommended videos without having some weird recommendation algorithm.

One of the peculiarities of the YT algo at the very least is that it decides upon recs because people are flipping between certain videos, and it also tries to select videos with the most engagement, so together that means you start with a film review and end up with a nazi video. This might allow us to have more natural recommendation mechanics :)

Nutomic commented 5 years ago

This would be pretty easy to seperqte by putting it into separate tabs. In both the subscriptions and the profile view, you get a tab "uploads" that shows the same content as now. On the second tab "boosts", you see the videos that were boosted by your subscriptions (or by the account you are viewing).

Edit: you bring a good point, this would be extremely useful for discoverability of new content on Peertube. Maybe it could even be used for the " recommended" videos shown next to each video. There, you could for example show the latest boosts of the uploader.

therahedwig commented 5 years ago

You could finetune that a little, recommended videos could be videos from the author or from their boosted videos, but with similar tags, and if not it'll try the rest of the author's videos.

I think this kind of control over what is recommended would be quite powerful from the video creator's standpoint as well, because they would want to ensure their fans have a good time, and they would want to be able to help colleagues.

For the regular recommended videos it might also give way to a different way of using a video site: letting certain accounts be curators and following someone who you think is really good at finding good videos.

Nutomic commented 5 years ago

I think steam is doing something similar with game curators, but i'm not sure how well that works in practice (never used it).

ChameleonScales commented 5 years ago

One reason I would like this feature to exist for: Creative Commons videos are often reuploaded on various instances and while that can be a good thing, it's not always necessary and boosting could prevent unnecessary reuploads and save storage space. A san example, searching for Sintel on mastodon.host returns 15 identical results: https://peertube.mastodon.host/search?search=sintel It's important to have copies but this many makes no sense to me. It's a waste of storage and resources in a world calling for internet abstemiousness (yes that's a word).

realityfabric commented 5 years ago

Mastodon has a feature that allows you to hide boosts from specific users, and also from all users.

YouTube has (or had at some point) a feature where you could feature channels, and I think specific videos as well, on your channel page (which didn't clutter any feeds, just allowed you to promote other accounts from your page).

To be honest, I don't know if PeerTube is the best platform for "boosts" as they exist on other platforms. It's not nearly as fast-paced. I think maybe just being able to show your playlists on your profile (#1823) could be enough.

ChameleonScales commented 5 years ago

@realityfabric Public playlists would certainly be less invasive. I doubt they will be used as a replacement for reuploads but we should probably try that first.

ghost commented 4 years ago

the video will also be listed among your own videos

I personally would vote against this.

and be shown to your subscribers

This is a great idea!

bkil commented 4 years ago

The web interface of both Mastodon and Friendica are capable of automatically embedding and playing PeerTube videos, though maybe not via P2P.

Hence if your followers use one of these platforms, you already have a pretty good workaround.

I think Friendica can also follow RSS feeds similarly to how it follows profiles - not sure if it embeds videos discovered this way, though.

d4f5409d commented 3 years ago

I like it! It could be like on LBRY/Odysee. ❤️ I hope this gets implemented!