It looks like video.blender.org is a #PeerTube instance! It's really cool to see Blender supporting this after their bad experience with YouTube.
Has anyone running been able to subscribe to them, either using PeerTube itself or Mastodon/Pleroma? I can send the follow request from Mastodon, but can't seem to get it to work on the PeerTube side.
Which is a shame, because I would be more than happy to watch Blender's videos.
On a happier note, we're finally at a point where multiple compatible clients and servers are viable; so we're not exactly tied to the success of just one project.
The network will continue to exist, and people will still be a part of it and develop for it, and ultimately extend it. What people miss is that the fediverse has been growing in sporadic bursts since its inception.
@kaniini I also like the notion of organizations hosting their own forges. Gnome is currently doing that with their own instance of Gitlab, and KDE uses Phabricator.
For an organizational umbrella, this approach totally makes sense, and probably entrenches the community to work within its own umbrella on old and new projects.
If these things would just get proper federation support (using agreed-upon conventions), then cross-pollination between these different code forges could be interesting
"If you are ever offered a choice of leading an open source project or being eaten alive by a mob of starving rats, choose the rats. Trust me on this. " - Mike Macgirvin