I set up a peertube instance last night!
It can be found at https://bolitoglossa.com
The name of Bolitoglossa comes from the genus of the mushroom-tongued salamanders, which are arguably some of the coolest salamanders out there. I’ve modified the style CSS to match the style of mander.xyz and to give it what I think is a clenar look, feedback is welcome.
In my opinion, what the ecosystem needs is more ‘regular’ videos, similar to old-style youtube. Video blogs, amateur tutorials, home experiments, videos about a birds eating food in the backyard - simple content that anyone can share. Things to make people engage with each other through video. So I will moderate the instance with this view in mind - most topics are allowed, but NSFW, hate speech, and misleadingly dangerous content will be removed.
As of now I have the registration unrestricted and a 20GB daily upload limit. If I run into problems with these settings I will adjust accordingly in response.
The data is stored on an SSD that I physically own. I will leave the instance running indefinitely, but if for any reason I have to take it down I will do my best to give a fair warning and I will try to make sure the owners can keep their videos. But as an amateur self-hoster I am not able to make stronger guarantees.
Feel free to use this instance to upload content, or ask me questions about how to set up your own.
Ahh, it turns out that trying to run a peertube, a mastodon, and a Lemmy instance requires some effort to keep up with moderation and maintenance. Some updates came along and I didn’t have the time to give the instances the proper maintenance, and the peertube instance was being used to upload lots of pirated content as “hidden” videos or to make copies of videos from other sites and not really to upload original content. There were also issues with mastodon filling up my raspberry pi’s SSD because I was not taking care to remove the older content… So I decided to stop being so ambitious for now and only focus on the Lemmy instance, which is my favorite project in the fediverse. If I have the time I might try to “fix” the peertube/mastodon instances but for now I can’t really set that time aside to remember how I set them up in the first place and to figure out the upgrade procedures!
Ah! No worries.
I re-enabled registration. Feel free to use this Peertube instance if you need somewhere to upload that is not YouTube. If (or when) I decide to take it down I will do my best to make sure everyone has enough time and a way to get a copy of their videos, but please don’t rely on the instance as a secure long-term storage! I will try to get around upgrading it soon.