PeerTube is not an alternative client. It is its own video platform.

Instances / Servers

I’m not talking about ads.

Set it up and ask other PeerTube servers to mirror your videos, so that viewers will stream the video from there as well.

It’s possible to filter only local videos.

One thing that might get more content creators on PeerTube could be “advertising” as not just a video platform, but also a backup service.

I’m guessing most content creators have their original video and video project files backed up somewhere. Why not have the ability to use PeerTube for that?

You can already have PeerTube store the original video file, when you upload it, something YouTube can’t do.

From PeerTube docs:

At the beginning of PeerTube, we only supported Web Video (previously known as “WebTorrent”) streaming. Due to several limitations of the Web Video system, we had to add HLS with P2P support. Unfortunately, we can’t use the same video file for the two methods: we need to transcode 2 different versions of the file (a fragmented mp4 for HLS, and a raw mp4 for Web Videos).

So if you enable Web Videos and HLS, the storage will be multiplied by 2.

We recommend you to enable HLS (and disable Web Videos if you don’t want to store 2 different versions of the same video resolution) because video playback in PeerTube web client is better:

• Support P2P (using WebRTC) to exchange parts of the video with other users watching the same video to save server bandwidth

• Support video redundancy by other PeerTube platforms

• The player can adapt video resolution automatically

• Video resolution change is smoother

It’s probably not WebTorrent you are using, HLS.

Also, thank you for running with redundancy! I need to get it setup myself, with some new SSDs.

There’s nothing stopping you installing PeerTube on your own home server and uploading your videos to that.

If your internet bandwidth is low, you can have other PeerTube servers mirror your videos.

So when someone watches your videos, it will not only download the data from your home server, but also from other PeerTube servers that mirror your videos.

It won’t reduce server storage usage, because the video needs to be placed somewhere, but it will reduce bandwidth and traffic usage.

Some PeerTube websites have Sepia Search enabled, so fx from PeerTube.wtf, you can search through 1000+ servers.

It’s still there, but it is not recommended.

PeerTube still have P2P though, but not using torrent technology.

Have you considered implementing Librapay into PeerTube? Would be a nice tool for viewers to fast and easily support content creators.

There’s honestly not many content creators on PeerTube from YouTube and I’m not sure how a tool like that would even work.

Sepia Search consist of all these instances: https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances

Also, PeerTube platforms can activate the same search index as Sepia Search, so you can make the same search directly from a platform.

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!remindme

I think that’s a stretch. If we wanna criticise Proton, it’s their lack of proper Linux support.

Damn that’s fucked

How come his bank accounts in the UK was frozen? In what way can the US have influence on that?

Microsoft, for example, cancelled Khan’s email address, forcing the prosecutor to move to Proton Mail, a Swiss email provider, ICC staffers said. His bank accounts in his home country of the U.K. have been blocked.

Microsoft did not respond to a request for comment.

In my experience a stable distribution is a “set and forget”, unless you start tinkering with it.

I have countless of users where I’ve installed something like Linux Mint and it’s been literally running for years without any issues. These users have no idea how to use a computer, except for logging in and opening the browser.

Obviously the more complex a setup, the more shit can go wrong.

Is taking the plane honestly worth it, when it’s just a two hour drive? 😅