I am frustrated too – frustrated with trying to get my video uploaded to Dtube! The main reason I started Steeming was because YouTube had just demonetised my tiny channel, which was earning nothing anyway, but they just seemed to be putting more and more obstacles in the way of any kind of success.
But when I tried to enter Dtube I just got a blank page, and it took a lot of effort to finally find out that my computer, laptop and phone were just too old to run the system.
So eventually I invested in a new tablet computer and managed to get Dtube running at last. Hooray! I actually managed to upload a small video to Dtube. I was over the moon.
I then spent hours recording, editing and rendering a 17.5-min vlog, and tried to upload it to Dtube. It was too large. I tried again in a lower resolution. I was so excited when the upload succeeded! I added text, a title, tags and a snap photo.
But when I clicked "Submit" I got a weird error message: "false: invalid permlink character ${s}"
I tried deleting the text. I got the same message. I tried deleting the title and tags. I still got the same error message.
I posted a query on Dtube Discord Help, but no one replied - the only other posts that appeared were frustrated posts from other people trying to upload videos and encountering problems (apart from one person who said he'd created a community support bot, but it was too complicated for a tech rookie like me to even begin to understand).
I think Dtube is an amazing resource, and I applaud the developer for putting so much work into it. But it seems that you need to be a tech whizzkid to get it to work. I struggled into the early hours trying to get my 17-min video to upload, and eventually I had to give up, as I had an early start the next day for a mountain scramble. I ended up being exhausted for most of the day.
I have recommended Dtube to some of my favourite YouTubers. I even published a post on the subject. I have no idea if these YouTubers have actually tried to make the move and maybe hit the same problems that I have, or if they're just being apathetic/sceptical. But for the time being it looks as if I'm going to have to stick with YouTube, which is very frustrating, after spending so much time, effort and cash on trying to upload to Dtube!