HELLO!
Things have been going quite well over here, and it’s about time that I doubled-down on them more.
I just published the following blog post breaking down the shift in mindset I’ve been building towards over the past year:
Starting today, video (& misc.) content that I make will be published here first, with sydnicating to YouTube and other platforms a secondary objective.
Obviously this does not mean I’m just quitting YouTube - far from it - but that the priority, focus, and order of operations starts first with my own site, then YouTube.
I’m willing to take feedback as to whether I post exclusively in a dedicated topic for this, or if I should leverage the usual categories. I think putting discussions in normal categories makes the most sense, and I can just use a consistent tag for the posts that could be checked for finding all such posts.
Curious to hear your thoughts.
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Love this idea! I like the idea of posting new topics to the usual categories. If the activity of the forum gets really active to the point that multiple topics get made in each category everyday then it may be a good idea to make a dedicated category just for video topics!
Quick question - if there was a dedicated category for your videos that only you could create threads in, would we be able to setup email notifications for ourselves upon creation of a new topic in that dedicated category so that we would be notified when there is a new upload?
I’m am into this! I know you mentioned that you’re not interested in talking through the technical details, but I do want to ask this question: if you’re uploading to YT to use the embed on the forums “first”, what’s the point in making it unlisted temporarily so that you can say you’re posting it here first if that’s not actually true in the technical implementation?
Obviously, a forum isn’t a video hosting platform. You need to have a place for the video to actually be uploaded to “first”. but if it’s a larger platform hosting the video itself, why restrict it’s release there? It may not be feasible, but i’m really interested in what a more… self-controlled (?) video hosting solution would look like. Maybe that’s expanding your network of self-controlled sites by standing up a peertube instance on a VPS or something and setting up a script that auto-posts a thread here, then mirroring that video file to YT.
Anyway, sorry if this seems like pushback. I love your noble efforts to disentangle from the megacorps and want to support it as best I can!
Good questions!
So a couple things:
- The primary plan is to not upload unlisted to YouTube and just embed here. I’m utilizing PeerTube to host the videos and instead of using the PeerTube front-end as a “video site” (because I just don’t really like it and curating/organizing it etc. is falling into the same traps of YouTube uploads) I’ll be embedding the videos here to watch (providing downloads for paid subscribers, too!) kind of like a blog, but where I can keep adding additional videos and we can discuss, etc.
Example:
- Even if I did just embed a YouTube upload - like I sometimes do for early access videos or longer-form stuff that gives me issue on PeerTube for transcoding/storage constraints - the advantage becomes a few things:
- Not everything has to be public on YouTube in the first place. There’s plenty of random things I want to show/talk about/etc. that don’t make sense to format into a full, public video, get the packaging down, or have potential negative impact on my channel, etc.
- Sharing here early means I get to share videos, get feedback, possibly make revisions should it be warranted, etc. without having finalized the title/thumbnail/description/etc. Those packaging elements can take addition hours of work to create/finish, and there can be upwards of a week between finishing a video and it going live on YouTube (due to scheduling, packaging, other factors) and it could live on here ahead of time.
But regardless, the goal is to own the pipeline from creation to publishing - and then just syndicating to YouTube after, not still depending as directly on YouTube.
As an example, I will have a capture card review published here shortly, which will not go live on YouTube until ~Tuesday of next week, possibly later as my kiddo will be on spring break and I won’t be in the office.
EDIT: here it is - AVerMedia ELITE GO Capture Dock Review
I’m hoping to make this work with the given tag. Will keep you posted.
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heck yeah. I made some assumptions when I replied and should’ve made clear that I was assuming! You know what they say…
Anyway, this rules. thanks for clarifying!
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