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Is there any actual good content on PeerTube? (programming.dev)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I feel like it would be best to proxy YouTube, or subscribe to paid indie channels like nebula, but without a user base and without ad revenue or subscription revenue I don’t know how quality content can come to PeerTube. Maybe I’m just missing the content but when I’ve checked it’s all very low quality, just random unedited webcam vblogs mostly.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (14 children)

In all honesty I don’t understand how PeerTube is supposed to scale with users once it gets content. Hosting, transcoding and streaming video is super expensive. There’s also a matter of making money from videos and without financial incentive it’ll be hard to compete with commercial solutions (in a capitalist hellholes that most of us live in). Community funding can keep up with hosting text but can barely keep up with hosting pictures, let alone something more, unless you’re an internet archive or something.

People who are on Nebula already made it in Youtube and they’re so big that they just want to make more money. They provide nice service for the money but I don’t think they will come support your revolution for free.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Peertube allegedly uses p2p networking that runs in your browser to serve videos. It's open source but when I tried to actually read up on the protocol large parts of the docs were in french

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It uses P2P when multiple users is watching the same video. A PeerTube server can also mirror another PeerTube server's videos and function as a peer.

You can see it this screenshot, that I've downloaded most of the video data from other peers.

PeerTube is build on ActivityPub, just like Lemmy. Right now federation is broken between Lemmy and PeerTube. When it's fixed, you'll be able to subscribe to PeerTube channels from here and comment as well.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

Fix for the federation is here https://lemm.ee/comment/18936804

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