PeerTube, RSS and website changes

#peertube #decentralisation #fediverse #enshittification

I realised this week that I really need to embrace the Fediverse a lot more than I have been. It was easy to justify posting on YouTube instead of my own platform when I was getting a share of the ad revenue, but now it's gone, the incentives are gone with it.

I have seen other YouTubers share that their views have drastically reduced due to YouTube actively promoting shorts over long form content. This is especially apparent from the home page that has more space for shorts, adverts, and AI slop games, than long form content. There is as good clip from the WAN show showing the problem.

I have no intention of switching to long form content and contributing to the brain rot of society. It is clear that YouTube is going through the same enshittification as all the other platforms.

I was originally planning to stop posting on YouTube altogether, but given only a small fraction of my subscribers see my content (due the algorithm), I need to at least post something there for a little while to try to encourage people to jump ship.

PeerTube #

The plan is therefore to post around 50% of my videos on YouTube while my PeerTube channel will get everything. Patreon subscribers will get the video first, then it will be public on PeerTube a day later and finally YouTube the following day.

I will see how this goes for 2026 and may either completely stop posting on YouTube or further reduce how often I post there.

I have uploaded all of my videos on PeerTube so you can watch them without adverts or any form of tracking. You can subscribe to my channel by searching for alexhyett@videos.alexhyett.com where ever you live on the Fediverse.

My old videos likely won't appear in your feed but if you want to like or comment on a video you can do by copying the URL into the search bar in Mastodon.

RSS and Website Changes #

If you are reading this post via RSS (which I assume you are) then you are currently on my everything RSS feed.

Previously this didn't truly contain everything as it didn't contain my Notes, Book Notes or TIL, but now it does. You might get the odd one that I have posted recently in your RSS feed.

I have been wanting to make my RSS feeds a bit more RESTful and allow people to subscribe to the things they care about.

The current RSS feed has 3 version:

ATOM: https://www.alexhyett.com/feed/feed.atom.xml
RSS: https://www.alexhyett.com/feed/feed.rss.xml
JSON: https://www.alexhyett.com/feed/feed.json

I have now added in a dedicated video section to my website which contains the videos and the transcript/blog post that goes along with them. These will appear in the “everything” feed but will also have their own dedicated feed as well.

I have a few videos to add to this page which are missing a transcript so you may see these pop up in your feed too. I also need to update the design of this page to look more like a video feed but I will do that in stage 2.

In short, I now have these feeds that you can subscribe to. Each has an ATOM, RSS, and JSON version that are linked to from the ATOM and RSS versions.