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  • As long as I can disable it or opt out of it, I don’t mind. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I don’t want videos recommended to me.

    With Youtube, it’s not a big deal because I never log in there, I browse in private mode and set firefox to delete cookies. So when I go to Youtube, I just get a blank page with no recommendations.

    But with Peertube, I need to login to get full functionality (federated search, etc). So I would need an option to turn off video recommendations or whatever.

    As a computer guy, I can appreciate that working with data is cool - there’s a lot of neat stuff you can determine from it. As a user, it creeps me out. If I went my favorite restaurant, and the waitress recommended something based on the last 5 times I ate there, I would stop going to that restaurant.

















  • I like small instances too, they feel more like a community. Unfortunately, most of the ones I’ve been on have shut down.

    Now I try to look for an instance that takes donations. To me that means they take their job seriously, and they’re not just doing it as a hobby or for learning experience.

    For Lemmy, Mastodon, etc it probably doesn’t matter, your messages will still be available if your instance disappears overnight. But with Peertube, try to go with a big, well established instance. Right now I have to re-post my videos to a new instance since libre.video kicked the bucket last year.